Thursday, January 29, 2009

How to ask your Boss for a salary increase

One day an employee sends a letter to Her boss asking for an increase in her salary!!!


Dear Bo$$

In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$ perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding the need$ of u$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company.

I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.
Your$ $incerely,

Je$$y

The next day, the employee received this letter in reply :

Dear Jessy

I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticeably well as yet.

NOw the newspaper are saying the world's leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad.

I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean.

NOrma

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Rebranding during the crisis

Have a look at these nice re-branding of companies logo during economic crisis. My personal favorites are Xerox(fading logo) and bestbuy(please buy). What yours?


















Well, lets hope this crisis is over as soon as possible so the companies can get back to original brand logos.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Interesting Definitions

Today, I got an email with some really interesting and humorous definitions. Enjoy these definitions:

School: A place where Papa Pays and Son Plays.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse: A person who works up to give you sleeping pills.

Love Affairs: Something like the game of Cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test match.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either"

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.


If you can come up with similar interesting definitions for other words, don't forget to add it to the comment sections.