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No idea if this is true or not but sheesh!

Never mind the nail scissors, what about the chainsaw. A reader writes: “My brother-in-law went through security at Auckland domestic airport and witnessed a passenger having to fish out her nail scissors from her handbag and leave them behind. He went through security and then boarded his plane. After being seated he could smell petrol. He knew you shouldn’t be able to smell petrol on a plane, because planes don’t use petrol. The smell got worse and eventually he got the attention of one of the flight attendants. They started to look around to see where it was coming from. They found in the overhead compartment a chainsaw in a bag that was leaking petrol into the compartment. His plane was delayed as the owner was identified and the chainsaw removed and put with the main luggage. The owner of the chainsaw said security had stopped him but had let him through because it wasn’t one of the things on their list to confiscate.

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No I don’t have one but I like the way that some bloke from a law firm in Australia talks about the exclusive deals that Apple makes iPhone users and providers sign.

“It would be like Ford deciding that from now on all of the cars they produce can only use be used with petrol from Shell.”

“If you fill your car up with fuel from BP the ignition system will detect that and shut down the car.”

Source: NZ Herald

1. go to www.google.com
2. type in find chuck norris
3. hit the i’m feeling lucky button

Absolute genius!

A six months pregnant Bay of Plenty woman has been charged with drink driving for allegedly being five times the legal limit.
Police say the 19-year-old Te Puke woman had a breath alcohol level of 750 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The limit for anyone under the age of 20 is 150 micrograms.
The woman told officers she was driving her three companions home because she was the least drunk of the group.
She will appear in court next month.
Source: Stuff

The mind boggles at the thoughtlessness and stupidity of some young people!

Not sure if you knew this but you can do conversions straight from the google search bar.
For example you can type “20 degrees c in f” and it returns “20 degrees Celsius = 68 degrees Fahrenheit”
Not only does it do units but it also does currency – “20 usd in nzd” returns “20 U.S. dollars = 26.3331139 New Zealand dollars”
Very handy and saves having to find online conversion sites like I used to.

I knew this was the case!

This is the kind of news that your HR folks don’t want to hear, but researchers today said letting workers swear at will in the workplace can benefit employees and employers.

The study found regular use of profanity to express and reinforce solidarity among staff, letting them express their feelings, such as frustration, and develop social relationships, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Researchers said their aim was to challenge leadership styles and suggest ideas for best practices.

“Employees use swearing on a continuous basis, but not necessarily in a negative, abusive manner. Swearing was as a social phenomenon to reflect solidarity and enhance group cohesiveness, or as a psychological phenomenon to release stress, ” the study stated. “Most of the cases were reported by employees at the lower levels of the organizational hierarchies and it was clear that executives use swearing language less frequently. ”

“The primary issue for management is whether or not to apply a tolerant leadership culture to the workplace and deliberately allow swearing,” said Yehuda Baruch, professor of management at the UEA-based Norwich Business School (NBS), and graduate Stuart Jenkins looked at the use of expletives and swearing in the work place from a management point of view.

Younger managers and professionals were more tolerant in what they accepted as ethical behavior, suggesting that age may be a moderator for the spreading of potty mouth language to the workplace. Women also swore more than might traditionally be expected, especially among themselves.

The study also found that swearing did not take place in front of or within close proximity to customers, but once they had gone or in staff areas. The research suggests that while a ban on swear words and reprimanding staff might represent strong leadership, it would remove the source of solidarity and in doing so could lead to decreased morale and work motivation.

The results of the study, “Swearing at work and permissive leadership culture: when anti-social becomes social and incivility is acceptable”, are published in the current issue of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal.

Story via networkworld.com