This is a sort of "bye for now" email. I'm out marketing tomorrow and then have next week off, water-skiing in Morzine with four children on my back. I know it's not Friday, but as I am in slightly light-hearted mood, prior to my holiday, you will forgive me for sending you the following snippet from a South African newspaper.
The Cape Times (Cape Town)
"I have promised to keep his identity confidential,' said Jack Maxim, a
spokeswoman for the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg, "but I can
confirm that he is no longer in our employment". "We asked him to clean the
lifts and he spent four days on the job. When I asked him why, he replied:
'Well, there are forty of them, two on each floor, and sometimes some of
them aren't there'. Eventually, we realised that he thought each floor
had a different lift, and he'd cleaned the same two twelve times. "We had
to let him go. It seemed best all round. I understand he is now working
for GE Lighting."
It so happens I stayed in the Sandton Sun Hotel last year and, apart from its exceptionally clean lifts, I was also impressed by the casual reaction of the duty manager when a wheel from one of the linen trolleys was lobbed over the 12th floor balcony, presumably by this particular cleaner who had found it one of the lifts he was attending to. It crashed onto the marbled floor of the lobby barely three feet from where I was checking out. The manager lifted the offending object from the floor with barely a glance upwards and dropped it into a waste paper bin behind the check out counter!
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