29 September 2008

Meme from Magen

Here's a meme from my favorite blogger of all.

Instructions: Figure out your answers for each of the below questions. Put your answer into a Google image search. Grab the first interesting image for each answer, and post the images on your blog.

1.) The age you will be on your next birthday


2.) A place to which you'd like to travel


3.) Your favorite place


4.) Your favorite person


5.) Your favorite food


6.) Your favorite animal


7.) The town in which you were born


8.) The name of a past pet


9.) The first name of a past love


10.) Your favorite color


11.) Your first name


12.) Your middle name


13.) Your last name

27 September 2008

Work-Related Humorz

In order to appreciate the following IM conversation, you need to know several things about my place of employment:

1.) We deal with a LOT of old people
2.) Many of these old people, for reasons best known to themselves, found it necessary to purchase an ungodly number of whole life policies. You know, as opposed to purchasing, say, one policy with a higher face amount and probably lower premiums. I tend to blame unethical insurance agents, but maybe that's just me.
3.) We do not have an automated way to quote future policy dividends and other values. This means we have to write these letters manually. Using complex spreadsheets. Until our eyes start bleeding.
4.) Our standard values projection letter is five years out, but we don't have a maximum time frame if the customer requests it (which they, regrettably, do with alarming frequency).

I have, of course, altered certain elements of the below conversation for readability and to protect the not-so-innocent. Happy Saturday!

Luaphacim [8:54 AM]:
why is it always the people with 5 policies that want value projections through 2030?


Cube neighbor [8:54 AM]:
i dont know, but it really is always those people


Luaphacim [8:54 AM]:
srsly

Luaphacim [8:55 AM]:
it's like there is an inverse relationship between number of policies and reasonableness of requests


Cube neighbor [8:56 AM]:
hehe


Luaphacim [9:23 AM]:
I came up with a possible solution


Cube neighbor [9:23 AM]:
LETS HEAR IT


Luaphacim [9:23 AM]:
people who have more than one policy are addicted to life insurance...

Luaphacim [9:23 AM]:
they can't live without it

Luaphacim [9:24 AM]:
they have to have more and more to satiate their desires

Luaphacim [9:24 AM]:
they order endless policy projections to analyze their toys


Cube neighbor [9:24 AM]:
NOT A BAD THOUGHT

Cube neighbor [9:24 AM]:
IT COULD VERY WELL BE TRUE


Luaphacim [9:25 AM]:
they have what state-of-the-art 19th century psychiatrists might call a "mania"


Cube neighbor [9:25 AM]:
THEY ARE LIKE SCROOGE MCDUCK(WHO SWIMS IN HIS MONEY)....THEY GET THESE PROJECTIONS AND THEN MAKE PAPER HATS(OR OTHER CLOTHING ARTICLES) OUT OF THEM


Luaphacim [9:26 AM]:
hehehe *Note: This was audible*

Luaphacim [9:26 AM]:
this guy is going to have a whole wardrobe

Luaphacim [9:26 AM]:
You SO just made me LOL.


Cube neighbor [9:27 AM]:
I heard.


Yeah, that's my life.