Vijay For Victory

A Spanish Naval captain was walking leisurely on his battleship when a subordinate rushes over to him and says “Sir, an enemy battleship is fast approaching us. We should be ready”

The captain replies coolly “Go. Get my Red shirt“

The subordinate rushes over and gets the Shirt for his captain. The captain wears the red shirt.

After some time, the enemy battleship comes in range. Consequently heavy rounds of fire are exchanged between the two battleships. After much effort, the Spanish win.

The subordinate approaches his boss, “Congratulations for the victory sir, but why did you require the red shirt in the first place?”

The captain replies “Because, during the war if I got injured then my blood should not have been seen as I did not want my men to lose hope and to fight with the same ferocity.”

Just then another subordinate rushes over. “Sir, we just spotted another 20 enemy battleships heading in our direction.”

The captain replies coolly “Go. Get my yellow trousers“

Once upon a time the government with a ruling party XYZ, had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

Ruling Party XYZ afraid that, someone may steal things over the night. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Now they have got a new question. “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?”. So they created a Planning Department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

This lead them to raise one more question “How will we know that, the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control Department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

When it comes to salary, they have got a new question “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer; and then hired two more people.

One more question added in the row “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

After an year, they said “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are ,$10,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.”

So they laid-off the watchman.

Does this story remind you something. Yes you are right, this is the current situation in IT industries.

Once there was a person who went to Heaven after his death.

An angel (guide) was showing him around. They walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.

The angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, “this is the Receiving Section; here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received”

He looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

Then they moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. The angel then said to him, “this is the Packaging and Delivery Section; here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them.”

He noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor they stopped at the door of a very small station. The man was so surprised to see only one angel seated alone and do nothing.

He asked the angel guide, “What is this section?”.

“This is the Acknowledgment Section; after people receive the blessings, only very few send back acknowledgements”, the angel guide answered quietly.

A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?”

“No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.”

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked.

“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

“Where are you going to install the idol?”, he asked the sculptor.

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

“If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, “I will know it.”

Moral of the Story : The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. “Excellence” is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.

Two Irish bought 2 Horses. To identify them, they cut the tail of the first horse.

The horse WITH tail is mine, and the hosre WITHOUT tail is yours. A cunning fellow cut the tail of another.

They got very confused.

This time they tie a belt to a horse. The Horse WITH belt is mine, and the hosre WITHOUT belt is yours. Another cunning fellow cut the belt of another.

They got very confused again.

First Irish told, this is the last identification… WHITE horse is mine and BLACK is yours.

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimeters from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said: “Look mate, don’t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!”.

The passenger apologized and said, “I didn’t realize that a little tap would scare you so much.”

The driver replied, “Sorry, it’s not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver – I’ve been driving a van carrying dead Bodies for the last 25 years”.