Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Does Management know their Staff ?

On walking into the factory, the MD noticed a young guy leaning
against the wall, doing nothing.

He approached the young man and calmly said to him, "How much
do you earn?"
The young man was quite amazed that he was asked such a
personal question, he replied, none the less, "I earn $ 2
000.00 a month, Sir. Why?"
Without answering, the MD took out his wallet and removed
$6000.00 cash and gave it to the young man and said, "Around
here I pay people for working, not for standing around looking
pretty! Here is your 3 months salary, now GET OUT and don't
come back".
The young man turned around and was quickly out of sight.
Noticing a few onlookers, the MD said in a very upset manner,
"And that applies for everybody in this company".
He approached one of the onlookers and asked him, "Who's the
young man that I just fired?"
To which an amazing reply came of, "He was the pizza delivery
man, Sir...!"

What Goes Around... Find it out???


His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life." "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said: "What goes around comes around." Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth...



Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Attitudes and Choices ...

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past.
Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices today

So enjoy the story here it goes......

This is a story an elderly carpenter who had been working for a
contractor for many years. He had built many beautiful houses but
now as he was getting old, he wanted to retire and lead a leisurely life
with his family. So, he goes to the contractor and tells him about his
plan of retiring. The contractor feels sad at the prospect of losing a
good worker, he agrees to the plan because the carpenter had indeed
become too fragile for tough building work. But as a last request, he
asks the old carpenter to construct just one last house.
The old man agrees and starts working, but his heart was not in his work
anymore. He had lost the motivation towards work. So, he resorted to
shoddy workmanship and constructed the house half-heartedly. After the
house was built, the contractor handed over the front door keys to the
carpenter and said; this is your new house, my gift to you. The carpenter
was shocked and upset. Had he known that he was building his own house, he would have done a better job! Now, he would have to live in the house,
which is not worth staying.
Think of yourself as the carpenter. You work hard every day, but are you
giving your best? We put our least to the work we don't like or do not
have interested in. Later, we get shocked at the situation we have created
for ourselves and try to figure out why we didn't do it differently.
Enjoy your tasks and carry on your responsibilities with pleasure and not
with pain. Life is a do-it-yourself project. Do your job enthusiastically
and with devotion, a positive output and a pleasing life will certainly
be on your way...