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Re: My employees are brain dead (no Roadster content)

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Subject: Re: My employees are brain dead (no Roadster content)
From: Gordon Glasgow <glasgow@serv.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:09:38 -0700
Alan, what the hell are you putting in those pizzas?  ;-)

Alan Bent wrote:

> I own a pizza shop in a small town in Australia, only a small shop with
> 4 employees. I have been operating pizza shops for about 14 years, over
> those years I have hired many people, I used to think I was reasonably
> good at selecting staff members but the events of the last few weeks is
> making me re-think my selection process. Here's a couple of examples of
> the inteligence they possess-
> One of my pizza delivery drivers, an 18 year old female, was in her
> friend's car, her friend decided that she needed to re-fuel so she
> pulled into a petrol station (or gas station as you guys insist on
> calling them). Her friend got out and started to fill the tank, my
> employee was standing next to her discussing whatever it is that 18 year
> old girls talk about. At about this time my employee thinks to herself
> "Hey, I might light a cigarette!".
> BANG!
> The resulting explosion destroyed half the petrol station and one car,
> but somehow both employee and friend survived, but both recieved nasty
> burns and will be in hospital for quite a while.
> Another employee, also an 18 year old female pizza delivery driver, was
> at work one night when she casually says "My car is really annoying
> me!". Against my better judgement I asked her why her car was annoying
> her, "because it smells funny, that's why!". I asked what kind of smell
> it was and she said that it was a "funny burning smell". I went out to
> her car and sure enough it didn't smell too good. I asked her if she had
> checked her oil lately, she said she hadn't been able to check her oil
> lately because the bonnet (hood) release cable had broken and she
> couldn't open the bonnet, but she knew that the oil was low. I said to
> her it isn't so low that the oil light is coming on is it? She said that
> "the light was only coming on when you go up a hill, but for the last
> couple of days it has been on nearly all the time!" I fixed her cable so
> she could now open the bonnet and check the fluids.
> It has actually worked out quite well, the engine now rattles so much
> that you can hear her coming from about 1/2 a mile away, it gives me
> time to get her next delivery ready!
> Alan Bent  -  Flaxton, Queensland, Australia
> 1966 Fairlady SP311-01060   - *  1965 Silvia  CSP311-70231
> 1966 Fairlady  SP311-00925  - *  1964 Fairlady  4-SP310-00134
> 1964 Fairlady  4-SP310-00134 * 1964 Cedric Wagon  4-WP31-50620
> 1963 Bluebird  P312-3-32984   * 1963 Bluebird  P312-3-39741
> 1963 Cedric  G31-3-07024       * 1964 Cedric Wagon  4-WP31-51579
> 1969 Super Six  G130-005415  *
> Early Datsun Homepage  http://www.geocities.com/olddat
> Nissan Silvia Homepage  http://www.angelfire.com/ns/silvia
> Planet Cedric                  http://nav.to/planetcedric

--
Gordon Glasgow
http://www.gordon-glasgow.org



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