Weirdest Workplace Happenings Workers in Scotland lined up to take classes which encouraged flirting to get ahead in their careers. Class exercises included purring like a kitten and dancing like Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. A new tactic to shame delinquent policemen in Thailand who commit misdemeanors, such as littering or coming to work late, requires them to stay in the office all day and sport an armband featuring a smiling Hello Kitty surrounded by hearts. An Iowa woman was fired for misuse of company time for keeping a diary about how she avoids work. Some of the entries detailed her efforts to fool management into believing she was hard at work, usually by furiously typing her journal. Hana Bank in South Korea sent 20 of its single female employees on blind dates to bolster morale and improve their work/life balance. The women were paired with 20 single men found by a matchmaking agency in the country and sent to a mountain resort in North Korea. Four Points by Sheraton announced it was looking for a Chief Beer Officer for its new worldwide beer program. More than 5,000 people, 90 percent of whom were men, applied for the position, the most applications for any position at the hotel chain. An announcer for London's Tube system was fired after recording spoof messages and posting them on her Web site. Some of the messages reminded American tourists that they were talking too loudly and warned male passengers to cease staring at fellow female riders. A Barcelona-based architecture firm expects to build the first hotel on the moon by 2012. The "Galactic Suite" would cost $4 million dollars a night and feature an 80-minute trip around the world. The company director said the biggest problem facing architects is figuring out hotel room bathrooms in zero gravity. Famed rap artist and business mogul P.Diddy turned to the Internet this summer to find his next personal assistant. Diddy said the job would include everything from getting him ready for the red carpet to addressing multimillion-dollar business deals. The 10,000-plus applicants had 3 minutes to showcase their talents and win over Diddy. The mayor of Millbrook, Ala., closed city hall so employees would shop at the grand opening of a new Wal-Mart - on the clock. Employees were required to bring a paid Wal-Mart receipt back to work as evidence that they spent their government holiday shopping. Cartoon Network CEO Jim Samples was forced to resign his position last February after a botched guerilla ad campaign for one of the network's shows, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The ad included light-up outlines of two of the show's characters placed in unassuming places, such as under bridges, throughout five major cities. The ads looked enough like bombs to push residents to call authorities with suspicions of possible terrorist attacks. Back to the "Top 10 Lists" Main Page