News: A Chinese woman has been fired for contradicting the boss for the third time. The company has a policy of merely fining the employee for the first two times and a third talk-back attracts a sack action.

Supposing you don’t actually contradict the employer in so many words but will effectively do so by doing one of the following things :

1) The employer says that a particular customer should be kept in good humor.You don’t agree but do not say so.You will merely crack a particularly sick joke with the customer concerned and laugh excessively annoying the customer to the point of deciding to leave the company.You have kept the customer in good humor and at the same time you have not contradicted the boss.

2) The boss says that a particularly cantankerous manager is an efficient officer and deserves recognition by way of a pay hike.You don’t agree. You believe that another manager who is related to you from your wife’s side must get the hike as otherwise the consequences could be terrible on your domestic front. But you don’t disagree. You can only gently remind him that the boss’s wife is also a distant relative of your wife and the latter’s views in the matter may have to prevail in the interest of domestic harmony in the boss’ own home. Here you are not contradicting the boss.

3)The boss has his fixed views on a technical issue. You know he is an ass as far these matters go and it is disastrous for the company as well as for your own safety to embark on a course of action being contemplated by the boss.You cannot contradict him because he says that when he had been in such-and -such a place earlier ,that was what they had done and achieved much fame and glory .In such situations the best thing is to merely confuse the boss thoroughly by a reference to the law department which can be trusted to give a legal opinion which passeth all understanding and makes the boss run in circles. This way you are taking care to see that you do not contradict the boss.

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2007/09/10/wait-boss-im-not-done-contradicting-you/

We have our udderly delightful reality show ,
You will really want more and more
Our Jersey cows footage is ,behold and lo,
A sheer visual treat when loud they moo.

“The makers of Big Udder, which features a live feed from a dairy farm in the West Country, claim their show could offer a “more intelligent” line-up than Big Brother.

The show, featuring 24-hour footage of 110 Jersey cows, will be presented by fictional hosts Davina McCow and Dermot O’Creamy, makers said. They hope www.bigudder.co.uk will attract thousands of reality fans each day. “

“Women from a new Polish political party have stripped off in a controversial election poster campaign.Seven candidates from the Polish Women’s Party are featured posing behind a billboard that reads: “The party of women. Poland is a woman.”

The poster is making waves in staunchly Catholic Poland, reports the Daily Telegraph.Writer Manuela Gretkowska, who founded the party, said Poland’s political scene was run by men for men.

“This poster is intended to shatter stereotypes in the anachronistic world of politics, which is more often dominated by uncommunicative men with their black tie outfits,” she said.

“We are beautiful, nude, proud. We are true and sincere, body and soul. This is not pornography, there is nothing to see in terms of sex, our faces are intelligent, concerned, proud.

“We do not have our mouths open nor our eyes closed.”

“This week, we moved some newsphotos of a new Victoria’s Secret uplift bra, and the question suddenly hit me: what are those darned supermodels doing these days? The year 2007 is half over, and Reuters has had only 32 pictures illustrating their adventures, compared with nearly 200 pictures for 2006!

Of course, 2006 was an exceptional year, what with one of the models winning the Nobel Prize for Undergarments, two of them being elected to the U.S. Senate, and another finding a cure for a tropical disease between beach photo shoots. But all that’s history now.

Victoria’s Secret, you need to pay attention. The U.S. just named a new poet laureate, and it’s not one of your models! Unless one of them announces her presidential candidacy soon, or goes to the space shuttle to unveil “space lace” or some such thing, it’s going to be hard to justify a sudden burst of photo coverage before Christmas. We can’t just cover stuff that isn’t really newsworthy, can we?”
http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/08/03/are-victorias-secret-models-turning-shy