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Jackass Boss: Guhvnah

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I worked in a small downtown law firm as a...hmmm...I don’t really know what it was called...I think the owner called me his Girl Friday. My special contribution to the firm was my ability to keep the lobby magazines up-to-date and in perfect order at all times. This, after extensive training provided by the owner himself, mind you. As the Girl Friday of a former governor of the state, it fell upon me to type his memoirs from his dictation, which he never could quite grasp were static-filled because he dictated while driving, and apparently hanging his head out the window of his pickup. On one particular day, I got hung up on trying to understand what he was saying on the tape, so I stopped and first asked his administrator if he could understand what was being said on the tape. The answer being no of course, I had to visit the Gohvnah’s chambers to ask him what he had said at this point in the tape. The next thing I saw was a legal pad and a pen flying towards me, and as I ducked, I heard the Guhvhah yelling “Chinky-Pin! Chinky-Pin! Chinky-Pin! Don’t you know anything about fishing?” This was my first job out of law school.

Happiness


A blog that I read today, Marty Nemko's, reminded me of something important that I know, but I keep forgetting...

Paraphrasing...

Accomplishment + Gratitude + Serving Others = Happiness

Family Fun


You know that Banana Fana Fo Fana thing...We had a dog named Tucker when my nieces learned it.

Jackass Boss: Tandy Man

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Hmmm...I worked for a lawyer who employed a law clerk whose sole responsibility was to count the shell casings in the shell casings closet. This was the same lawyer who, in the year 2004, was operating a law practice from a Tandy computer with a dot matrix printer that was so loud it had to have its own room. I later interviewed for a job with a lawyer who admitted that when he was in law school, he visited the Tandy Man’s office with a group of law students...one of his friends was the shell casings clerk that year and was giving tours of the place after hours. When I left the job, I left a pink message slip that said, The Smithsonian called, they want their first ever built computer back...FedEx will pick it up Thursday.
May 2008
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