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To: donald sew who wrote (46597)	6/23/1998 8:49:00 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Hey Don: Off Topic and on the lighter side -- Many moons ago, when I first went into business for myself, the banker who loaned me a considerable (at least to him and to me) amount of money demanded that my employees (had none right then) take polygraphs. Seems that the bank had experienced several recent write off accounts because of internal employee theft and embezlement. I needed the money, so I didn't put up too much fuss, especially as he wasn't demanding any but employees who handled money take the test. A short time , and two employees hired, brought about the first poly exam . The examiner was a police captain from Dallas who owned the testing firm and it seems as if the test were to cost 200 bucks each. In the early 60s that was a chunk of money , especially to a newly started business, but ---- a deal is a deal and I had agreed when I got the money ---- Both guys go through the 30 minute exam and after ten minutes of so of me eagerly awaiting the door to open and the captain to tell me everythings fine -------- the door s l o w l y opened and the Cap , with a sad and soulful face gestured me to come into MY office. Well, Mr Nolan sir, I have bad news. One of your employees is drinking on the job. Neither of them is misapproaiting money or doing anything bad but this drinking on the job is serious . With my heart in my throat, I asked which one and he told me that Ricky was the culprit. Now I was working a 100 hour week at that time and Rick was putting in probably 70 and this was at the salary we'd agreed on when he was hired and NO overtime cause he knew there was no money to waste on frivilous things like overtime....ggg and he was my friend. So, at the recco of the examiner, we called Rick into the office and the Cap gave him the results. When Ricky had come in the door, he was white as a sheet and pale looking and scared to death. When the drinking bit came up, he burst into a BIG GRIN and said, Heck, I don't drink except on the 3rd shift boss, and that's when we're here in the warehouse working, and you're drinking too cause you're buying the beer and if I didn't drink then, I'd have to drink in my sleep cause that's the only time left ............ I started laughing so hard that I got tears in my eyes and so did Ricky and the Cap thought we were both crazy. I did tell the banker that I was stopping the polygraphs and by that time I was so far in debt that he couldn't sell me out and get all his money back, so I was in the drivers seat. BTW, Ricky left me about 10 yrs later and is running his own successful business now. From time to time when we see each other, we have a good laugh about the "old days". Regards --- Nemer