Saturday, July 16, 2005

Work is fun: The Saturday collection

The applicant
This executive was interviewing a nervous young woman for a position in his company. He wanted to find out something about her personality so he asked, "If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?" The girl quickly responded, "The living one."

The unionist
A plumber was called to woman's apartment in Sydney to repair a leaking pipe.

When he arrived, he was pleased to discover that the woman was quite beautiful and during the course of the afternoon the two became extremely friendly if you know what I mean. About 5:30 p.m. thephone rang, disturbing the bedroom antics.

"That was my husband," she said, putting down the phone.

"He's on his way home, but is going back to the office around 8. Come back then and we can take up where we left off."

The union plumber looked at the woman in disbelief. "What? On my own time?"

The journalist
A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane.

"It will be waiting for you at the airport!" he was assured by his editor. As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air.

"Fly over the north side of the fire," said the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes.""Why?" asked the pilot."Because I'm going to take pictures! I'm a photographer, and photographers take pictures!" said the photographer with great exasperation.After a long pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the instructor?"

Baggage
Getting on a plane, a man told the check in lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami."
She said, "We can't do that!"
The man replied, "You did it last week!"