1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Then analyze the situation:
   • If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accounting department.
   • If they are recounting them, put them in auditing.
   • If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
   • If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in planning.
   • If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
   • If they are sleeping, put them in security.
   • If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in information technology.
   • If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
   • If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in sales.
   • If they have already left for the day, put them in marketing.
   • If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.
   • If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in top management.

simply meant for humor. no blondes were hurt or real in the making of this story.

I urgently needed a few days off work, But, I knew the Boss would not allow me to take leave. I thought that maybe if I acted “Crazy” then he would tell me to take a few days off. So, I hung upside-down on the ceiling and made funny noises.

My co-worker (who’s blonde) asked me what I was doing. I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb, so, that the Boss might think I was “Crazy” and give me a few days off.

A few minutes later the Boss came into the office and asked, “What in the world are you doing?”

I told him I was a light bulb.

He said, “You are clearly stressed out. Go home and recuperate for a couple of days.”

I jumped down and walked out of the office. When my co-worker (the blonde) followed me, the Boss asked her, “And where do you think you’re going?!”

She said, “I’m going home too. I can’t work in the dark.”

This is absolutely unbelievable! This is a thermometer that was outside a friend’s house here in St. Louis.

If you can’t tell what it says, the thermometer is registering 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit!

Of course, the thermometer was out in direct sunlight (and on concrete, i think) … but still. WOW! It’s actually been in triple digits for over a week now. That’s not too unusual, but I do think it’s later than normal. It’s usually mid to late July when it hits triples.

Oh, and I don’t know what that top number is reading b/c it hasn’t even hit 78 around here at night for a long time.

Last weekend we started hearing this horrible grinding sound when we would press on the brakes of the van. All the other vehicles we’ve had would make a screeching sound when the brakes were ready to change, so I thought maybe there was something really wrong since there was no screeching sound but a grinding sound and feel.

I finally got around to changing the brakes this morning. WOW! This pad is from the front-right, and it had absolutely no pad left, and it actually looked like melted metal (yes, Rosie, metal and steel can get hot enough to melt. How do you think it’s formed to begin with?).

Anyway, now we’re back to being safe again.