Call Center Crusader Gifts

'If this is a live person - drop dead.'

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

"And need I remind you, the 'art of the deal' is the lifeblood of this company."

"They've hiked up our targets again...I'm going to have to put in some overtime to have any chance of meeting them!"

"No, I really DO love you. It's just that my committee has some issues."

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

"Everyone, please welcome our new VP of being promoted and paid lots more than you for no apparent reason!"

"He keeps reissuing everything I take issue with."

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

"Global warming, income inequalities, protests and COVID-19. Get up and do something! Help out already, now!!!"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'There he goes, the bravest M&A knight that our kingdom has ever known.'

'Please remember, it's not a lie if it turns a profit.'

'Risky, but I like it!'

Two Players both holding the same cue.

'This is the last time we post job openings,'

Production: Urgent, Rush, Super Rush.

'I have a typical nine to five job. It's enough work for nine people and I'm treated like a five year old.'

"I suppose we should start with listening skills!"

Twisted Peel works overtime.

'I didn't realize we'd employed a cyber bully in you, Miss Tweedy.'

He calls it 'delegating authority' I call it 'passing the buck'

'Have you seen the ruddy margins the Chinese expect us to take up for this work?'

'They never let you forget that your intellectual property belongs to them.'

'... Further to our telephone conversation of the 3rd, my fax of the 11th, my letters of the 16th, 23rd and 28th, my emails of....'

'What do you mean by, your people do not want to get in touch with my 'kind' of people?'

'A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something.'

'I think both of you are always too busy: You don't talk anymore...'

Not The Real Me

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

"You're still burying your bones? I store mine in the cloud now."

'I warned you not to ask for a shorter work week.'

"We appreciate the good job you're doing, but can you do it more thanklessly?"

"Lunchward ho!"