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At the morning meeting a few days ago the supervisor of one of the maintenance groups said, "later today we'll be flipping a coin to see whether the plant Christmas tree gets installed downtown at the main corporate office OR stays here at the plant"
...... so when the meeting was almost over a few minutes later, there was the usual question by the meeting leader for any other items. I raised my hand and taking a cue from King Solomon, said,
"I think we should just cut the Christmas tree in half and keep the smaller top portion that still looks
(a few people now begin to giggle)
like a Christmas tree and let the folks downtown have the goofy looking bottom portion
(more people smiling, giggling even harder, just barely contained)
(a few people now begin to giggle)
like a Christmas tree and let the folks downtown have the goofy looking bottom portion
(more people smiling, giggling even harder, just barely contained)
THEN someone on the west side of the room immediately speaks up and says, "all in favor of Ernie's idea, raise your right hand!" and of course the entire room shot their hands in the air with laughter and said "aye".
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Ha ha ha - this is one of my favourite Christmas post so far.
It was a really cool eXperience. It happened so fast, and the room eXploded with laughter. I even went through all the proper channels with my plant manager in order to get a version of the story that was acceptable to him that eliminated the corporate names and locations.
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