Shipping snarl-ups really are Evergreen's jam.
You're Fired!
1. "I am a chef at an upscale restaurant. The saute cook has a lobster dish on his station that involves a technique called deglazing that involves alcohol, which means the pan catches on fire briefly and flames up. When you do it correctly (hard to do it
incorrect) the alcohol is cooked off and the flame goes out. Every time he made this dish he would deglaze the pan, catch it on fire and then blow it out, blowing his own germs and nastiness all over someone's food and everything in the blast radius. That was a week ago. Fired him after he did it multiple times after being asked not to."
2. "Years ago, at a lumber company. Had a guy, less than two hours after he started on his first day, pick up his car with a forklift and stand underneath it to see what was rattling when he drove."
Gidday, mate
Thomas Edison turned the word "hello" into a greeting. He felt it was the best way to answer the phone, whereas his rival Alexander Graham Bell felt "ahoy" was the best way to answer the phone. Before this "hello" was used to convey surprise. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written examples they found of "hello" were; In 1826 - used to attract attention: "Hello, Jim! I'll tell you what: I've a sharp knife and feel as if I'd like to cut up something or other." In 1827 - used to express surprise or to register an unexpected turn of events: "Hello, sez Joe Laughton, where's Bill Erry un Olla Parsons?" In 1853 - used as a greeting: "Hello ole feller, how are yer?" In 1877 - used to answer a telephone call. In early quotes also used in initiating a telephone call. "The word 'hello' was called into the Fourth Ave box, and directly a still small voice answered at the ear, 'Hello, what do you want?'" So while Edison may have popularised the use of "hello" for the telephone, he didn't invent its meaning either as a greeting (when answering a call) or as a way to attract attention (when making a call).
