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Cartoon
of the Day
You Just Gotta Laugh!
The Boss—Is Anybody THIS bad outside of
Dilbert?????
The Boss during a recent meeting: "We are
going to keep holding these meetings daily until I find out why
no work is getting done".
The Boss... "I didn't say it was your fault. I just said I
was going to blame it on you."
The Boss: "We passed over a lot of good people to get the
ones we hired." (Yikes!)
Quote from the Boss after over-ruling his own task force:
"I'm sorry if I ever gave you the impression your input
would have any effect on my decision for the outcome of this
project!"
HR Rep to job candidate, "I see you've had no computer
training. Although that qualifies you for upper management, it
means you're under-qualified for our entry level
positions."
How to Succeed at Work
The Walk of Success. Never walk down the hall without
a document in your hands. People with documents in their hands
look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings.
People with nothing in their hands look like they're heading for
the cafeteria. People with the newspaper in their hands look
like they're heading for the bathroom. Above all, make sure you
carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the
false impression that you work longer hours than you do.
Desk for Success. Top management can get away with
a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not
working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents around your
workspace. To the observer, last year's work looks the same as
today's work; it's volume that counts. Pile them high and wide.
If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the
document you'll need halfway down in an existing stack and
rummage for it when he/she arrives.
Job Interview Strategy
Take the prospective employees you are trying to place and put
them in a room with a table and two chairs. Leave them alone for
two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go
back and see what they are doing.
If they have taken the table apart, put them in Engineering.
If they are counting the paper cups in the trash can, assign
them to Finance.
If they are talking to the chairs, put them in HR.
If they are wearing tie-dye and need a haircut, put them in IS.
If they mention what a good price we got for the table and
chairs, put them into Purchasing.
If they don't even look up when you enter the room, assign them
to Security.
If they try to tell you it's not as bad as it looks, send them
to Marketing.
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MEET
PAT MARR

PAT
MARR, DISGUISED AS A "NORMAL HUMAN BEING"
Pat Marr
is the contributing editorial cartoonist for BizWatchOnline. He’s
our kind of guy. BizWatchOnline wanted to know about the
fountain’s of Pat’s inspiration, and here’s what he said:
"AS
A CHILD I LACKED GOOD LOOKS, TALENT, SKILLS OF ANY KIND,
INTELLECT AND CHARM, SO I WAS FORCED TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF
HUMOR. HUMOR IS THE LUBRICANT OF LIFE; IT MINIMIZES ALL SORTS OF
FRICTION, BETTER THAN WD40, THE OLD STANDBY."
"CARTOONING
IS NOT MY FULL TIME JOB. I JUST DO IT TO VENT IDEAS. FROM A
MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY PERSPECTIVE, I AM AN INTP. INTPs TEND
TO BE IDEA DRIVEN, AND THAT IS CERTAINLY TRUE OF ME. AS SUCH, I
DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE AN ARTIST AS MUCH AS PERSON WHO PUTS
IDEAS INTO A GRAPHICAL FORM. IN FACT, TO ME, DRAWING IS A VERY
SMALL PART OF CARTOONING; THE PRIMARY SKILL IS THE ABILITY TO
CONDENSE A COMPLEX IDEA INTO ITS SMALLEST FORM: A SINGLE
PANEL."
"THINK
OF ME AS A BUTTERKNIFE IN THE GREAT DRAWER OF LIFE; NOT AS SHARP
AS OTHER INTPs, BUT I WON'T USUALLY STAB YOU, AND I'M KIND OF
USEFUL."
To learn
more about the MBTI, go to: www.delta-associates.com
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