A quick stop for your early morning break, or a quick pick-me-up before you start your hard day at work!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
No laughing at work
Kollios, who works at the Trinity Grill in New Port Richey, said her boss approached her in front of a customer with one of the oddest requests she's ever heard.
"I had a customer at the bar and the owner came up to me and said, 'Please stop laughing,' Kollios said. "We giggled -- the guy at the bar and myself. And then I said, 'Are you serious?' And he said, 'Yes, if you laugh again, you will have to go home."
Kollios said she was then fired on the spot.
Kollios said she was shocked by her employer's actions.
"I will say that I don't have an odd laugh," Kollios said. "I did ask a few people but it's not."
The restaurant owner said a customer did not complain about the laughing. However, he prefers the restaurant to be quiet and cozy and Kollios' laugh prevented that from happening.
Under Florida law, employees are considered "at will," which means they may be terminated for any reason as long as they're not under contract and it doesn't involve age, sex or race discrimination.
A bed tester has such a valuable bottom that it has been insured for £1million.
Graham Butterfield's bosses were so impressed by his sensitive buttocks they took a policy out on his finest asset – making his rear as valuable as that of Beyoncé or J-Lo.
The 54-year-old, who works for Silentnight bed manufacturers in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, said: 'I am very proud to be the owner of a £1million backside.'
Fifteen camels, two zebras and several llamas and pot-bellied pigs escaped from a circus visiting Amsterdam.
"We suspect that a giraffe kicked open a pen," claimed Dutch police, adding that the animals did not get far before they were rounded up and returned to the circus.
A British student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper has been awarded 7.5 per cent for accurate spelling and effective communication.
The pupil, who wrote "f–- off" after being asked in an English exam to "describe the room you are sitting in", got 2 marks out of 27 and would have got more if he had added some punctuation, chief examiner Peter Buckroyd told The Times.
"It does show some very basic skills we are looking for – like conveying some meaning and some spelling," said Buckroyd, who works for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance examinations board. "It shows some nominal skills but no relevance to the task".
"If it had had an exclamation mark it would have got a little bit more because it would have been showing a little bit of skill".
Hope you can check back every work day for a little pick-me-up before your 9-5 grind starts. These posts are funny, irreverent, irrelevant and weird ... but they should all be relatively safe for work. Good, (mostly) clean, innocent fun. Enjoy!
