Article 5546 of rec.humor.funny: From: ravenpub@southwind.net (Carl D. Cravens) Subject: Essentials of business Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:30:00 PDT UUNet, recently accquired by WorldCom, was recently handed down this policy by their new owners. Salaried personnel are now to be called "essential personnel". And hourly personnel are to be called, you guessed it, "non-essential personnel". This didn't go over well in the "non-essential" departments.