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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.

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."

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