Article Written by London swaminathan

Date: 5 November 2015

Post No:2303

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Demand for Typists (During World War)

So great has been the demand for typists in the many war bureaus of Washington, that the legend has come to existence that the following test is now the standard by which applicants for such positions are hired:

The girl is shown into a room containing three objects: a washing machine, a typewriter and a machine gun; if she can identify the typewriter, she is hired.

Mark Twain: Idle and Fool!

Mark Twain was always impressed by the story of an industrious boy who became a millionaire. One of the things which remained in his mind was the fact that the boy had gotten his big chance by being noticed by a big business man while in the act of picking up a pin from the sidewalk.

When Mark Twain went to look for a job, he deliberately went to the street in front of an office window and began to pick up some pins which he had surreptiously strewn about. After a while he did succeed in attracting the attention of one of the men in the office. He came out into the street and, instead of the expected praise at such industry, Twain was astonished to hear the man say, “Here you, haven’t you anything better to do than pick up pins in the street? You must be an utterly idle and worthless fool.”

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Authority !!

In Tamil there is a proverb that says, “If you give power/authority to a scorpion it keeps on stinging.”

The Irish foreman on the construction job was new to his post of dignity. One of his first acts was discharge of one of his erstwhile fellow-workers. Asked why he had fired the man, he said, “I fired him not because I had anything against him, but I had the authority.”

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Little Work!

A personnel manager found himself confronted with a real problem. He had explained to the applicant that he could not place him because the firm was overstaffed. “That is alright,” said the job seeker. “The little bit of work I would do wouldn’t be noticed.”

–Subham–