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Not bad, Junior Wheatgerm. Really felt some empathy when I saw this one: CONSULTING
"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."Couldn't agree more! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Demotivation:"Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people."
A happy, motivated workforce. It can't be created with a few strategically placed motivational posters- it must be earned. It takes inspired leadership. It takes vision. It requires a culture of mutual respect between employer and employee. But come on, who has time for all that? Fortunately, there's a solution. When lousy leadership leads to an demoralized workforce, the truly uninspired leader finds the obvious solution. Fire the unhappy people! That fixes everything instantly, right?I've worked for managers like these!  Thanks for the link, Fiberbabe.
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Despair.com? I LOVE that website! One of my favorites (don't know if it's theirs) is, "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!"
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Google has a usenet group service now and they have an archive of 700 million messages dating as far back as May 1981. This was included in their list of milestones
Mail-from: Arpanet host CMU-10A rcvd at 10-NOV-82 0826-PST
Date: 10 November 1982 1126-EST (Wednesday)
From: James.Morris at CMU-10A
To: csl^ at PARC-MAXC, isl^ at PARC-MAXC, junk^ at PARC-MAXC
Subject: Communications Breakthrough
Message-Id: <10Nov82 112614 JM90@CMU-10A>
Because you can't see the person who is sending you electronic
mail you are sometimes uncertain whether they are serious or
joking. Recently, Scott Fahlman at CMU devised a scheme for
annotating one's messages to overcome this problem. If you turn
your head sideways to look at the three characters :-) they look
sort of like a smiling face. Thus, if someone sends you a
message that says "Have you stopped beating your wife?:-)" you
know they are joking. If they say "I need to talk to you :-(",
be prepared for trouble.
Since Scott's original proposal, many further symbols have bee
proposed here:
(:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets
@= for messages dealing with nuclear war
<:-) for dumb questions
oo for somebody's head-lights are on messages
o>-<|= for messages of interest to women
~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages
So you see, bit-map displays are really quite unnecessary :->
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Personnel Management Philosophy for the 21st century:
If you can't change the people,
Change the people.
Sorry. That should be the new buzzword: Human Relations Department. There's an oxymoron. Those people are neither human nor capable of relationships.
TEd
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TEd, that struck a chord with me. My ex-husband changed careers after we split. He is a Human Relations specialist! I guess I should have known .
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I found:
TPLAC = Tin Pot Little African Country.Can't really guesstimate whether any of these are what you meant, Sweetie: HRRC =
HEPnet Requirements Review Committee
Hampton Roads Rottweiler Club
Humanities Reference And Research Collection
Home Recording Rights Coalition
Human Research Review Committee
Hermance Région Rugby Club
Hampton Roads Rowing Club
Human Rights Resource Center
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Health and Rejuvenation Research Center.Gee, I'm kind of tired--hope one of these is it... 
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Well, the listing for TPLAC did say it was from Yes, Prime Minister, but as that had absolutely no meaning for me, I left it out of my post. Is that a TV show? I'd say surely a comedy, from the bit you snippeted (hi, tsuwm!<eg>)?
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