"CLAW" - читать интересную книгу автора (Barry Dave)

woman, people will say it was just because she's black.
(c) You flip a coin.

HOW TO SCORE

Give yourself one point for each close friend you have in the Personnel
Department.


Chapter One
THE HISTORY OF BUSINESS


When we look around us at the modern world, we see businesses everywhere,
unless of course we happen to be, for example, in the bathroom. But even
there, we see EVIDENCE of a thriving industrial economy, such as the Ty-D-Bowl
automatic commode freshener. Sitting there and thinking about it, you have to
marvel at the incredible creativity and diversity of the business world.
Where did all of this come from? How did the human race get from the point of
being primitive and stupid to the point where it could automatically, without
lifting a finger, turn its toilet water blue? Let's see if we can answer some
of these questions. My guess is we can't.

THE VERY FIRST BUSINESSES

Many, many years ago, there was no business on Earth. This is because
the Earth was primarily molten lava, which is not a good economic climate.
Office furniture would melt in a matter of seconds.

Then the Earth started to cool, and tiny one-celled animals--the amigo,
the paramedic, the rotarian--began to form. Over the course of several
million years, these animals learned to join together to form primitive
corporations, called "jellyfish," which were capable of only the most basic
business activities, such as emitting waste and eating lunch. By today's
standards, these corporations were very unsophisticated: if, for example, you
mentioned the phrase "Dow Jones Industrial Average" to them, they would have
no idea what you were talking about. They would probably sting you.

DID DINOSAURS HAVE BUSINESSES?

Nobody can really say for sure, because the Ice Age destroyed all their
records. But paleontologists now believe that, yes, dinosaurs probably did
have businesses. Not the Brontosaurus, of course. That would be ridiculous.
How would he hold his briefcase?

But the Tyrannosaurus Rex has those funny little arms, which would have
been perfect. Paleontologists think he was probably in Sales.

PRIMITIVE HUMAN BUSINESSES