Administrator Mugs

"No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?"

"We need a better piling system."

The Office Black Hole

"I know these school board annual budget meetings tend to run very late, however ... "

'This is gobbledygook. I asked for mumbo-jumbo.'

'It's a foolproof formula for writing grant applications.'

'Hey, everyone! I think I found the bottleneck!'

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

'It's mine and you can't have it.' Morris was finding it more difficult than most to adjust to the concept of a 'paperless' office.'

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

A deadline comes to chew up a worker.

'Steve, I admire your determination to make this plan work.'

'I have your file right here in front of me, Mr Simonson.'

'Having conducted a comprehensive analysis of dozens of subsets of data from a wide range of sources we've confirmed that the likely answer is 36...now we just need to identify the question.'

"Where would we BE without the right DOCUMENTATION...?"

"Yeah, I keep a clean desk. Now all the mess is in the computer!"

"Today's top priority is prioritizing our priorities."

'This committee will have two functions - to execute my plans and to accept responsibility if they fail.'

'Now...where did I put that 'How to keep your desk tidy' memo?'

"It's our new simplified work-life balance management system...anyone who has a life gets more work."

Desk trays - 'In', 'Out', and 'It depends'.

Department of Indifference.

Bereaucracy kills.

Here are the latest strategic proposals on 'managing the paperless office'.

Managing Targets: "It mat be simple but it works for me."

"Well we've had our 15% budget cut confirmed, nobody's applied for our vacancies and we're moving the office into a portocabin in the carpark. Item 2 staff morale"

'Who wants to work late again, raise your hands.'

'Hang on while I find a pencil.'

In basket-case.

Online form - Submit.

"It's the new management structure, the worker's the one at the bottom..."

'Let me tell you why I'm here...'

Performance Management.

Woman trying to do lots of things at once

"Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?"