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Authors: Belinda Hadden, Amanda Christie
level corporate policy which were potentially explosive to the executive's career. The young editor discovered the major gaffe in the programme and realised that it was the responsibility of the major executive. The young blade decided to exact his revenge - he duly spent many hours editing the programme as requested and this was shown to the board at the appointed hour.
After the event the major exec called in the junior to say well done. 'Would all the board like a copy as a keepsake?' the editor asked. The major exec thought this a wonderful idea and urged junior on. Which copy of the tape do you think the board received in their mail the following day?
In Weston-Super-Mare a small but successful confectionery factory produced lettered rock which is familiar at all British seaside resorts. This particular factory, Farmiloe's, owned and run by Mrs Farmiloe herself many years ago, employed an unpopular foreman whose job it was to oversee the time-honoured procedure of putting the coloured rods around the outside of the huge fat, round block of rock and inserting the letter rods in the middle before they were stretched into the long, thin sticks that we know and love.
The foreman finally earned himself the sack for one too many transgressions and, before he left, he decided to create a little souvenir of his time at the factory. He rearranged the letters to create around ten miles of rock bearing the message: 'Get Stuffed Mrs Farmiloe.'
A junior medic was given punishment duties at the hospital and a senior spokesman said: 'We didn't think it was funny.' The medic's 'crime'? A woman spent ten days on the loo after he had laced her cup of tea with the world's most powerful laxative - the potent drug 'Picolax'. She was his nursing boss and had moaned about his work. Pauline Ainsworth lost pounds before the effects of the prescription-only drug wore off.
A peer of the realm is now rather careful what he eats since he went stalking with, amongst others, a cordon bleu cook with a grudge. Lunch time saw the hungry peer settling down to a delicious venison stew which he finished with relish, much to the hilarity of the rest of the house party. Only when he had picked the plate clean did they reveal that his stew was made entirely from stags' balls.
A man in New York needed to pay back a manager in his office who was always playing practical jokes on people. He took a styrofoam plate and filled it with cottage cheese and other perishable food. He then covered the whole thing with another styrofoam plate and taped it up under her desk so that she would be unlikely to find it. For months the smell bothered her and it was six months before she found the 'Blue Plate Special'. It caused pandemonium in the office when she opened it.
C O Stanley was the notoriously tough chairman of Pye Radio and TV in the 1950s and all employees knew that anyone who put a foot out of line was out of a job.
John Hodgeson was in the statistical department and answered the telephone one day. A voice asked him to run through some figures which took quite a time, during which the tea trolley arrived.
'You'll have to wait; the tea trolley is here,' said Hodgeson.
'Do you know who it is here?' boomed a voice.
Suddenly realising who it was, Hodgeson replied: 'Do you know who you are talking to?'
'No!' came the strangled reply.
'That's all I wanted to know!' said Hodgeson, slamming the telephone down.
After two weeks in his office a temp had had quite enough of her boss. She appreciated that there was a certain anonymity to being a temp but she felt he really didn't need to treat her like an automaton/workhorse. He was particularly keen on time-keeping and made it clear that she should not go to the loo in his time, nor waste one second of his time, ever.
On her final day he went out to lunch, leaving her with a pile of work which 'must be finished before you leave'. OK, she thought, but before she got down to
After the event the major exec called in the junior to say well done. 'Would all the board like a copy as a keepsake?' the editor asked. The major exec thought this a wonderful idea and urged junior on. Which copy of the tape do you think the board received in their mail the following day?
In Weston-Super-Mare a small but successful confectionery factory produced lettered rock which is familiar at all British seaside resorts. This particular factory, Farmiloe's, owned and run by Mrs Farmiloe herself many years ago, employed an unpopular foreman whose job it was to oversee the time-honoured procedure of putting the coloured rods around the outside of the huge fat, round block of rock and inserting the letter rods in the middle before they were stretched into the long, thin sticks that we know and love.
The foreman finally earned himself the sack for one too many transgressions and, before he left, he decided to create a little souvenir of his time at the factory. He rearranged the letters to create around ten miles of rock bearing the message: 'Get Stuffed Mrs Farmiloe.'
A junior medic was given punishment duties at the hospital and a senior spokesman said: 'We didn't think it was funny.' The medic's 'crime'? A woman spent ten days on the loo after he had laced her cup of tea with the world's most powerful laxative - the potent drug 'Picolax'. She was his nursing boss and had moaned about his work. Pauline Ainsworth lost pounds before the effects of the prescription-only drug wore off.
A peer of the realm is now rather careful what he eats since he went stalking with, amongst others, a cordon bleu cook with a grudge. Lunch time saw the hungry peer settling down to a delicious venison stew which he finished with relish, much to the hilarity of the rest of the house party. Only when he had picked the plate clean did they reveal that his stew was made entirely from stags' balls.
A man in New York needed to pay back a manager in his office who was always playing practical jokes on people. He took a styrofoam plate and filled it with cottage cheese and other perishable food. He then covered the whole thing with another styrofoam plate and taped it up under her desk so that she would be unlikely to find it. For months the smell bothered her and it was six months before she found the 'Blue Plate Special'. It caused pandemonium in the office when she opened it.
C O Stanley was the notoriously tough chairman of Pye Radio and TV in the 1950s and all employees knew that anyone who put a foot out of line was out of a job.
John Hodgeson was in the statistical department and answered the telephone one day. A voice asked him to run through some figures which took quite a time, during which the tea trolley arrived.
'You'll have to wait; the tea trolley is here,' said Hodgeson.
'Do you know who it is here?' boomed a voice.
Suddenly realising who it was, Hodgeson replied: 'Do you know who you are talking to?'
'No!' came the strangled reply.
'That's all I wanted to know!' said Hodgeson, slamming the telephone down.
After two weeks in his office a temp had had quite enough of her boss. She appreciated that there was a certain anonymity to being a temp but she felt he really didn't need to treat her like an automaton/workhorse. He was particularly keen on time-keeping and made it clear that she should not go to the loo in his time, nor waste one second of his time, ever.
On her final day he went out to lunch, leaving her with a pile of work which 'must be finished before you leave'. OK, she thought, but before she got down to
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