A new CEO takes over at a struggling company and decides to get rid of all the slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. He can't believe this guy would just stand around on the job.

He walks up to the guy leaning against the wall and asks, "What are you doing here?" "I'm just waiting to get paid," responds the man.

Furious, the CEO asks "How much money do you make a week?" A little surprised, the guy replies, "I make about $300 a week. Why?"

The CEO quickly gets out his checkbook, hands the guy a check made out to cash for $1,200 and says, "Here's four weeks' pay, now get out and don't come back." The man puts the check in his pocket and promptly walks out.

Feeling pretty good about himself, the CEO looks around the room and asks, "Does anyone want to tell me what just happened here?"

From across the room comes a voice, "Yeah, you just tipped the pizza delivery guy $1,200.

Nice! And you have the perfect screen name for that joke.

HA!

NICE!!

Thanks for the laugh!

Actually, my mind went to a little different scenario.

I know of two situations in Silicon Valley where a company acquired another company. In each situation the new exec mgmt dinged an employee of the acquired firm, who was receiving preferential treatment. Such was unfair to other employees and wouldn't be tolerated by the new mgmt, no more preferential treatment.

Seems in one case, the new execs were told "you just dinged our lead engineer who has invented all of our successful products". In the other case, "you just dinged the one person who solves all the scheduling problems the rest of management creates.

In both cases, the dinged employees later resigned, the firms got burned.