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Have you laughed today?

http://www.myhumor.org/clean-jokes/business-jokes.asp

1. If you can’t get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
2. Don’t be irreplaceable, if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
3. It doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters what you say you’ve done and what you’re going to do.
4. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
5. The more you put up with, the more you are going to get.
6. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
7. When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
8. If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a fool about it.
9. There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.
10. Keep your boss’s boss of your boss’s back.
11. Everything can be filed under “miscellaneous.”
12. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he/she is supposed to be doing.
13. Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
14. If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
15. You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
16. People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn’t.
17. If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
18. At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
19. When you don’t know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
20. No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
21. The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.

Here are some encouraging/motivating quotes from Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture. I hope you find Randy’s words as inspiring as I do.

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

• Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough.
• If there’s anything I want to do so badly, I should have already done it.
• We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
• Be good at something; it makes you valuable…Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
• I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.
• It is not about achieving your dreams but living your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.

Answer

a. Customer’s name

b. Customer’s partial home address

c. Hotel room number

d. Check-in date and out dates

e. Customer’s credit card number and expiration date!

When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner. An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.

Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest’s information is electronically ‘overwritten’ on the card and the previous guest’s information is erased in the overwriting process.

But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!

The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them. NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card (it’s illegal) and you’ll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device card reader.

For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the electronic information strip!

If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times. Then try it in the door, it should not work. It erases everything on the card. Information courtesy of:

Metropolitan Police Service.

PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family

This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key cards containing anything other than an access code for the room!