Unit 8 Jobs and Occupations
You're Fired(E)
As a woman comes into the store,Jim turns to the other salesman and says,"I waited on the last fat ugly old lady.This one's your turn."His boss is standing behind him,very angry.
Jim is shocked to find that the fat lady is the manager's wifeand he's kissing her hello right nowwhile his boss is at lunchJim sneaks into his office and looks at some information on the boss's computerHe spills coffee on the keyboard.It shorts outHe returns from a week's vacationto find that he had scheduled this week as vacation,not last week. And that's why Jim gets fired.
All Right,Get In(M)A strong young man at the construction site was braggingthat he could do better than anyone in a feat of strengthHe made fun of one of the older workmenAfter several minutes,the older worker had had enough"Why don't you put your money where your mouth is,"he said.
"I will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a cartover to that building that you won't be able to wheel back.""You're on,old man,"the young man replied."Let's see what you've got."The old man reached out and grabbed the cart by the handlesThen,nodding to the young man,he said,"All right,get in."A Bab Day(M)Henry worked in a small shop on the other side of townThis morning he got up lateHe went without breakfast and hurried out to the carbut he locked the door with both the houseand car keys inside the house and car keys inside the bouse.
He had to break a window to get into the house for his keysWhen Henry finally got to the store,there were a lot of people waiting for him to open upHe opened the store and started waiting on these peopleThen Henry had to bread a rollof quarters against the cash register drawer to make changeand they spilled all over the floorHe got down on his hands and knees to pick up the coinsWhen he came up,he bumped his head on the open cash drawerIt made him stagger back against a showcasewith a bunch of perfume bottles in itand half of them hit the floor and brokeE-mail(M)Ben goes to apply for a job as a floor cleaner with a computer companyThe manager says,"You will be employed at $5 an hourLet me have your e-mail addressso I can send you a form to completeand tell you where to report for work on your first day."Taken aback,Ben says he doesn't have an e-mail addressTo this,the manager replies,"Well,then,that means you can hardly expect to be employedBen leaves.Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallethe decides to buy a 25-pound box of potatoes in a supermarketGetting up early every day and going to bed late,he makes profits quicklyJust in a few year,he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucksand manages a staff of a hundred formerly unemployed people,all selling potatoesBen is doing business with a woman,and the woman asks him for his e-mail addressin order to send some papers electronicallyWhen Ben says he has no e-mail,the woman asks,"What,you don't have e-mail,?
How on earth have you managed to do business without e-mail?"Just imagine where you wold be now,if you had been connected to the Internet from the very start!"After a moment of thought,Ben replies,"Why,of course!I would be a floor cleaner at a computer company!" |