{"id":617,"date":"2015-08-28T07:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=617"},"modified":"2015-08-27T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T22:27:58","slug":"laws-of-our-modern-day-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Laws of our Modern Day Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law of Probability &#8211; The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Close Encounters &#8211; The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don\u2019t want to be seen with.<\/p>\n<p>Law of the Result &#8211; When you try to prove to someone that a machine won\u2019t work, it will.<\/p>\n<p>Antithesis &#8211; When you try to demonstrate how something works to someone, it won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Random Numbers &#8211; If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver\u2019s Law of Public Speaking &#8211; A closed mouth gathers no feet.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Logical Argument &#8211; Anything is possible if you don\u2019t know what you are talking about (often used by all levels of management).<\/p>\n<p>The Starbucks Law &#8211; As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.<\/p>\n<p>Law of the Alibi &#8211; If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Two Tools &#8211; You only need two tools in life &#8211; WD40 &amp; duct tape. If it doesn\u2019t move and it should, use the WD40. If it moves and it shouldn\u2019t, use the duct tape.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Mechanical Repair &#8211; After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you\u2019ll have to go to the washroom.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Gravity &#8211; Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s Law of Lockers &#8211; If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.<\/p>\n<p>Law of Biomechanics &#8211; The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the length of the reach.<\/p>\n<p>Law of the Event &#8211; At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s Law of Physical Appearance &#8211; If the shoe fits, it\u2019s ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Variation Law &#8211; If you change traffic lanes, the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (this also occurs in checkout lines).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law of Probability &#8211; The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. Law of Close Encounters &#8211; The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don\u2019t want to be seen with. Law of the Result &#8211; When you try to prove to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}