Compiled by London swaminathan

Date: 9 JUNE 2018

Time uploaded in London –  14-51  (British Summer Time)

Post No. 5092

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EMPLOYMENT AND WORK ANECDOTE

An enterprising American telephone engineer established somewhere in Panama a unique business, a four-leaf clover arm. The conditions were ideal and he raised fine, large clovers which he was able to market in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes, to florists, manufacturers of novelties etc.

At the height of his success, all of his employees, a group of Panamanian girls, confronted him with an unprecedented labour problem.  They had no objection to the wages or the hours, they seemed to have nothing to do with the money.

Perplexed in the extreme, their employer raked his brains until he hit upon a brilliant solution. He sent for a Sears-Roebuck catalogue and put it in the hands of the girls, explaining to them how they could come into possession of those fabulous articles pictured therein. His problem was solved.

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Poverty Anecdote

C R W Nevinson tells this story:

“One day he (Henry Matisse) wanted to do a lithograph. I offered him all my chalk and stones, but he would have none of them. He got some lithographic paper, broke one of my lithographic chalks in half, and left himself with only about an inch and a quarter of grease to draw with. When I protested, and pressed him to take a box, he assured me it was unnecessary and much too expensive a gift, a comment on the wonderful French economy and the appalling poverty he must have suffered in his early days”.

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Working Conditions anecdote

A well-meaning employer desired to introduce a new spirit into his plant. He called his employees together, and said, “Whenever I come into the shop, I want to see every man cheerfully at work. I am placing a box here and I should like anyone who has any suggestions as to how this may be brought about more efficiently to just put it in here.”

The next day he saw a slip of paper in the box and looked at it. It said, “Take the rubber heels off your shoes”.

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King and Emperors Anecdotes

The late King George the Fifth, in his domestic setting, was quite an average husband and family head. When, on social occasions, he would talk too long to someone or express himself too rashly, Queen Mary would prod him gently with her umbrella and murmur ‘Now George’. Also when palace guests would admire the Cloisonné, the Wedgewood, the Chippendales etc., the King would always refer to his wife, saying, ‘Now, Mary, you know about this’.

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King of Italy!

It is reported that King Victor Emmanuel, when asked what he thought of the African campaign, replied very unenthusiastically, “If Italy wins, I shall be King of Ethiopia; if the Ethiopians win, why then I shall be King of Italy again.”

–Subham–