UNKNOWN FACTS

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it is made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the variety of pickles the Company once had.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The dot over the letter ' i' is called the title.

5. A duck's quack doesn't echo, no one knows why.

6. Forty percent of McDonald's profit comes from the sales of 'happy meals'.

7. Every person has a unique tongue print.

8. 315 entries in Websters 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

9. On an average, 12 newborns will be given to wrong parents daily.

10.During the famous chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen at a distance.

11.Warren Beatty and Shirley Maclaine are brother and sister.

12.Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces will x-x-/ a small sized dog.

13.Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

14.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15.Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

16.Leonardo Da vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

17.There are no clocks in the Las Vegas gambling casinos.

18.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

19.A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

20.By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

21.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

22.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

23.The glue on Israeli postage stamp is certified kosher(halal).

24.Guiness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

25.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them

Thanks Pritpal Singh Gill

Azim Premji's view on WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ?

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.
Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.
He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their manager .... manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

"People leave managers not companies ," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.
Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

Thanks Meghana