Many years ago, I worked for a company whose name then was the Pennwalt Corporation. One year, and I believe that was the only year, they achieved one billion dollars in sales. To celebrate that accomplishment, they gave each and every male employee a necktie enblazened with the corporate logo all over it, while the ladies each received a small clutch purse with the logo embossed into the plastic cover. That was my first corporate necktie! And I actually used to wear it often. But a couple of my colleagues had the attitude "The corporation earned $1,000,000,000, and all I get is this lousy tie!" One of them cut his Pennwalt tie in small pieces and scattered it about his office; another was about to throw his in the wastebasket when I said I would take it, so now I was the "not particularly proud" owner of two of these neckties.
