Business Daffynitions: Humor from the Workplace.Business Daffynitions: Humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was from the Workplace Joe Heuer Daffynitions Press Glendale, WI ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0964761858 $9.95 128 pages Sandra Hosking, Reviewer www.geocities.com/sandykayz Happiness is seeing your boss's face on the side of a milk carton. Stupidity is a pre-existing condition not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. by insurance. Quips like these can be found in Business Daffynitions: Humor from the Workplace, a collection of workplace "definitions" by motivational speaker A motivational speaker is a professional speaker, facilitator or trainer who speaks to audiences, usually for a fee. The keynote speech generally takes place either at the beginning of the event, or the close of the event. and author, Joe Heuer. Heuer has assembled more than 300 witticisms, puns, and one-liners lampooning cubicle culture from the mail room to the sales floor to the boardroom. Middle managers, for instance, are "people who are out of the loop, but stuck in the run-around." Attention spam is "the time it takes to decide whether an e-mail is worth reading." Many of the book's mock definitions are certainly worth posting on the cubicle wall or computer monitor. Daffynitions seems to lack organization, however. The definitions aren't listed in any particular order-alphabetical or grouped by category-making it difficult to find that chuckle-sparking item. Although most of the definitions are tightly written, some are cluttered by language, making the punch line punch line n. The climactic phrase or statement of a joke, producing a sudden humorous effect. punch line Noun the last line of a joke or funny story that gives it its point Noun 1. hard to grasp immediately, which invariably in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil ruins the joke. The definition of grumble, for example,
is "what employees do both when they do and when they do not
receive what's coming to them." And, I'm still wondering
how Heuer's explanation of corporate policy connects: "Limping
along until the new system is in place...."
Still, Heuer shows his insightfulness with elucidations that are almost too true. That raise you got last month is only "a monetary amount large enough to increase your taxes, yet small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay take-home pay n. The amount of one's salary remaining after federal, state, and often city income taxes and various other deductions have been withheld. ," Heuer writes. Priced at a recommended $9.95, management may not start giving the book away in place of a coffee mug; however, Daffynitions almost certainly will rise to "pass around" status. If the book is not enough, Daffynition fans can visit Heuer's Web site at www.daffynitions.com where they can sign up to receive a new jape each day via e-mail. Heuer is the founder of JoeSpeaks!, a Wisconsin-based speaking, training, and consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . He is the author of The Wit and Wisdom of a Regular Joe and The Idiot-Proof Guide to Customer Loyalty. |
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