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Unum Memories  By Phil Sargent

Remember when we hit 100 million in assets and had all employees out front with Tom Jones (photographer) about 100 feet in the air in a cherry picker to get a picture of all employees throwing their hats in the air to celebrate. It was to be used as an ad campaign. In the middle of that process a large black stretch limo pulled up on Congress Street and a to be unnamed actuarial employee walked across the front lawn and handed Colin his resignation. 
I'm guessing that the note in his H R File was "Not eligible for re-hire".

Remember the temporary employee that we hired for the Investment Department who had been a concert pianist and could type at well over 120 wpm. However he was a little strange and at one point someone thought he had a bomb, because he had a metronome ticking in the desk. 
Guess it kept him in time with the keyboard. When the temporary job was done he kept coming back. We would ask him to leave and then he would be back again. One day at 7:45am he was sitting in Colin Hampton's office when Colin came in. We got a restraining order for criminal trespass, but he showed up again. I remember watching our Security detail (not men in the best of physical condition) chase him across the front lawn down through the pine trees. Needless to say they never caught him. 
The funny thing is that he looked like a leprechaun and acted that way in how he could almost disappear into thin air. 
The sad thing is that about three weeks later he walked into a bank at Congress and High Streets and handed the teller a note. It said "Give me the money. I don't have a gun, but know where to get one." Of course he was immediately arrested and I think spent many years at some institution for the mentally unstable.

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Charm School by Dianne Hannaford

When I first went to work at Union Mutual, there was a "Funchat Club" for the women.  Each month they had a supper and some form of entertainment.  One meeting, a woman who ran a "Charm School" spoke.  Union Mutual thought that was a good idea and hired the woman to come in and teach us how to be charming women.  As I recall, it was once a week at the end of the day, ½ hour on company time, ½ hour on our time.  We learned how to walk, get in and out of a car gracefully and how to sit.  There was probably more to it, but I only remember those 3 things.

I can't say that I practice those lessons today, I still cross my legs when sitting, not my ankles, and I do not get in and out of my car like a lady.  
Oh, and you are supposed to fold your hands in your lap, backs down (because they are not always pretty).   But I can say that I went to "Charm School".

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“Old Sayings/Phrases”

Ernie Ryder mentioned how much he enjoyed Glen Faulhaber’s “Salada Taglines”.  He mentioned that Glen was too nice to mention the “old saying” which relates to many of us----

“Life is like a roll of toilet paper, it goes faster as we get to the end”

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