Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Serendipity wears a raincoat

The terrible news is that pencil cases are going to go on strike if their union leaders do not negociate new terms that are agreeable to the membership.

If I was a pencil I'd be very nervous. If the pencil cases do go on strike, the pencils will have a less orderly existence.

Fortunately management is likely to come to their senses to avoid labour action. Little kids who make use of pencil cases tend to look glossy-eyed during the talks. Given this we are anticipating a speedy resolution.

The unions of twist-ties, pencil sharpeners, protractors and rulers are next in line to negociate new terms, each having had their latest contract expire within the last seventeen months. With stellar timing a teenaged representative was elected on behalf of the little kids and so these school supplies unions may be in trouble. On the other hand, there was a glove. Or rather, a glove was elected to represent all of the remaining school supply unions.

4 comments:

Zhoen said...

Beware The Pencil Rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsBCJycshcE

Debstar said...

Negotiation can become very tricky when one party holds the upper glove. *note the spelling. That's the first time I've seen a C in the word negotiate/negociate.

Phil Plasma said...

z: I can count on you to provide TMBG links whenever such would be appropriate.

d:upper glove indeed. As for negociate, I'll take the least common acceptable spelling at every opportunity.

Zhoen said...

Yes you can.