Work and Recreation
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Comment# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 2 Mar
In this day and time,it seems you have to screw up, in order to move up.
, on the job, in
Work and Recreation and
Wealth and Poverty
Comment# · Excellent (2 ratings) · submitted 22 Feb by
sraz
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 8 Feb by
jambone9
It is vexing, if not ironic, for an employee facing job loss because of outsourcing to seek relief from an employer's assistance program which is itself an outsourced function.
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 8 Feb by
jambone9
The most significant, all-encompassing, far-reaching industry developed in the 20th century and continually refined in this century is information technology.
Comment# · Excellent (one rating) · submitted 27 Jan by
Jambone9
The last minute is a refuge for emergencies that would not exist if a situation or project were properly managed.
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 23 Jan by
jambone9
The greater the number of people are involved in a project that is running late, the more it becomes an exercise in personality management, rather than actual project management.
Comment# · Excellent (one rating) · submitted 23 Jan by
jambone9
The tension in the boardroom was so thick you could cut the air with a chainsaw.
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 23 Jan by
jambone9
Returning to work for a former employer is like getting re-acquainted with an ex; it may or may not work out.
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 23 Jan by
jambone9
When you leave home for work, take your brain with you.
Comment# · Poor (2 ratings) · submitted 16 Jan by
jambone9
The degree of personality assertion in a conference room increases in direct proportion to the number of persons present.
Comment# · Fair (4 ratings) · submitted 16 Jan by
jambone9
I have no intention of elevating my job to the status of a religion. There are more than enough religions out there as it is.
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 11 Jan by
jambone9
Outsourcing is a four-letter word with seven extra letters.
Comment# · Fair (7 ratings) · submitted 8 Dec by
lboggs
All luck is bad. Bad luck is obviously bad, but good luck fools you into thinking that you did something right.
, in
Work and Recreation and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (9 ratings) · submitted 4 Dec by
lboggs
Its even harder to soar with the eagles if turkeys are standing on your wings.
Comment# · Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2007) ·
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in
Work and Recreation
Comment# · Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in
Altruism and Cynicism and
Work and Recreation
Comment# · Fair (767 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Work and Recreation
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