Business Hierarchy Gifts

"Relax. I just wanted to tell you that you're doing a good job."

"That arrow always goes to the bottom when I walk by."

'Chicken Farms - Pecking Order'

'I'm delegating everything but my paycheck and my snazzy office to you.'

'When training my son, keep him totally ignorant. I'm grooming him to be VP in-charge-of -denials.'

"Ms. Ray, you're getting a promotion! You're no longer my Gal Friday. You're now my Gal Saturday."

Zoo Inc. Management Structure

"O.K., if you put it that way."

'You can't put him out to pasture - he owns the pasture!'

"As you can see, our corporate structure is turtles all the way down."

"Yes, I'm sure you do deserve further career advancement. But if I promote you again you'll have my job!"

'You'll learn that our corporate structure is a bit unconventional.'

Workers family tree.

'Oh, really? I work for little softy.'

'Someday, son, 50 of this will belong to your ex-wife,'

'Who's that pathetic little one down there?'

'Nice work. A fluid work force with a minimum of drips.'

"The boss is not very bright." "True, but if he was smart you wouldn't have a job."

'We harbour few illusions here at Megatron Inc.'

'I'm looking for someone to keep the blood off my hands.'

"You can't expect to get anywhere in business without making an enemy or two, Filmeyer."

"The man who manages the worker."

'It's probably not a good sign to be listed in the organization chart underneath the office plants.'

'We're presently entangled in a power struggle.'

Puppet workers.

'I'll have to let you go, Bob - Ted, from accounting, is challenging my position as alpha male!'

'Does grandma still outrank you?'

'If you're a public servant, what does that make ME?'

"Sorry, Dad."

"It would help if you brown-nosed a little more."

'One day, after they unfreeze my DNA, this will all be mine again.'

'These are the people who'll be line managing you.'

'When I reach the top, Henderson, I won't forget all the little people I climbed over to get there.'

"I brought you up here today, son, because I wanted you to get a feel for the scope of this damned thing."

'I like the energy I'm seeing on the first floor.'