Low Wages
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Welcome to Wednesday’s Edition!
In today’s issue …
1) Low Wages
2) Today’s Opportunity
3) Sales Pitch
Low Wages
A man owned a small farm in West Texas.
The Texas Wage and Hour Department came to visit,
investigating a report he was not paying proper wages
to his help.
“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay
them,” demanded the agent.
“Well, there’s my hired hand who’s been with me for
3 years. I pay him $600 a week, plus free room and
board. The cook has been here for 18 months. I pay
her $400 a week, plus free room and board. Then
there’s the half-wit that works about 18 hours a day.
I pay him $10 a week and buy his chewing tobacco,”
replies the farmer.
“That’s the guy I want to talk to; the half-wit,”
says the agent.
The farmer says, “You are talking to him.”
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Sales Pitch
Private Jones was assigned to the Army induction center,
where he was to advise new recruits about their
government benefits, especially their Serviceman’s Group
Life Insurance (SGLI).
It wasn’t long before the center’s Lieutenant noticed that
Private Jones had almost a 100% record for insurance
sales, which had never happened before. Rather than ask
about this, the Lt. stood in the back of the room and
listened to Jones’s sales pitch.
Jones explained the basics of the SGLI to the new recruits,
and then said. “If you have SGLI and go into battle and
are killed, the government has to pay $200K to your
beneficiaries. If you don’t have SGLI, and you go into
battle and get killed, the government has to pay only a
maximum of $6K.”
“Now,” he concluded, “which bunch do you think they
are going to send into battle first?”
Thank you for reading today’s issue of JOKES Journal.
