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THE proprietor called in the company’s fashionable and beautiful CEO and said, "I want to check vulgarity in our organisation." The CEO said, "Sir, I am not wearing too short a skirt. Am I?" The proprietor said, "By vulgarity I mean your salary. You should be ashamed!" She asked, "Ashamed of the salary I get?" "No, ashamed of the work you do for your salary", he said. Vulgarity is a relative term. If all women are in a short skirts and only one among them is wearing a full sleeve and high neck salwar-kameez, she would look vulgar. If some CEOs were getting Rs 40 crore a year while the per capita annual income of the country is less than Rs 40,000 they would, of course, look vulgar pocketing this kind of salary. But being filthy rich and drawing "vulgar" salaries are becoming positive attributes these days. A boy getting a "vulgar" salary has got more matrimonial prospects than the one getting a decent salary. A prospective bride’s father asks the would-be bridegroom’s father about the boy’s income. The boy’s father says, "You know our son is in the government service holding a very important post. He draws decent salary and but earns a "vulgar" under-the-table money." Most CEOs find
justification in living handsomely over shareholders’ money. A CEO
of the company was asked how he justified pocketing Rs 10 crore a
month when his company was in the red. "If I start moving about
in rags," he asked, "Who would invest in our stocks?"
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