This book is filled with a variety of stick figure affirmations that enhance self esteem and motivation. The affirmations are suitable for all ages, and the book makes a great gift for that special person in your life. Children will like the cartoon-like illustrations and adults will benefit from the meaning and message of the positive statements. The affirmations are meant to inspire and uplift the soul.
Laughter the Best Medicine @ Work is a collection of eight decades’ worth of Reader’s Digest magazine jokes invovling jobs, the workplace, co-workers, bosses, excuses, sick days, etc. There are over 1,000 jokes and anecdotes to lighten up your day!
Lighten up and laugh your way through the 9-to-5 grind with this mix of hilarious wisecracks, uproarious one-liners, full-color cartoons, and quotations from famous (and not-so-famous) wits. The hundreds of jokes and quips in Laughter the Best Medicine @ Work have been collected from more than eight decades’ worth of Reader’s Digest magazines and are guaranteed to brighten up your workday. You’ll find everything from outrageous resumes to creative excuses for calling in sick. So whether you suffer from an e-mail gone wrong, an irritating coworker, or a dreadful boss, you’ll see that laughter is the best medicine for all your work woes.
A survey sent out to our contractors posed the question, “What motivates you to come to work every day?” One guy answered, “Probation officer.”
—E. Hewitt
One of the less difficult blanks to fill in on our job-agency application is “Position Wanted.” One job seeker wrote “Sitting.”
—Flo Traywick, Lynchburg, Virginia
What do you call twin policemen? Copies.
—Tyler Meason
My sister Angela was impressed by a job applicant’s confidence. “How will you gain your coworkers’ respect?” she asked. The reply: “Mainly through my misdemeanor.”
—Gretchen Duff, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
My laptop was driving me crazy. “The A, E, and I keys always stick,” I complained to a friend.
She quickly diagnosed the problem. “Your computer is suffering from irritable vowel syndrome.”
—Angie Bulakites
My coworker at the hotel was miserable at his job and was desperately searching for a new one.
“Why don’t you work for your mother?” I suggested.
He shook his head. “I can’t,” he said. “Her company has a very strict policy against hiring relatives.”
“Who made up that ridiculous rule?”
“My mother.”
—Doug Barilla, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
If ever there was a time of year in which we need a sense of humor, it’s the holidays in America—and the latest little book in this best-selling series is here to help! Brimming with America’s funniest stories, one-liners, cartoons, quotes, and jokes, this side-splitting collection explodes the myth that the holidays are the picture of clean homes, well-behaved children, meticulously wrapped gifts, absolutely perfect food, distinguished guests, and perpetual, shiny white smiles. Here is just a sampling of the holiday havoc we all recognize—and love:
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” —Erma Bombeck
Last Christmas morning, after all the presents were opened,
it was clear that my five-year-old son wasn’t thrilled with the ratio
of toys to clothes he’d received. As he trudged slowly up the stairs,
I called out, “Hey, where are you going?”
“To my room,” he said, “to play with my new socks.”
“The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.” —Joan Rivers
