Career Reformist Gifts

"How do you feel about working a four-day week?"

'This job is for a 30 hour week. . .but to achieve that you need to work 60 hours a week.'

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

'The meek shall inherit the debt. The rich shall inherit the loopholes.'

'Don't worry about your job at the office, Sweetie. They declared bankrupty today.'

America Finally Solves the Gun Problem

"But what you call a track record I call ancient history."

"We'll take a 10% cut in benefits if you'll take a 10% cut in stock options."

Pre-Old Blues

STRIP *Community Care * 'client empowerment' policy

Bureau of Power to the People

Someone loses his pension.

"...Everyone you meet on the way up, you'll meet again on the way down."

"But we've been interviewing like this for years...why would we want to change now?"

Crossing USA Mexico Border

'A restaurateur prepares macaroni and sells it as pasta. I want you to do the same for the educational program at your school.'

Policing the Police

Women Have To Choose

"Ambitions... to retire on full pay and just go fishing."

Go to M.I.T., they said. You'll do great things, they said.

'-Must remember to empty that...'

'I need to find you a company with strong anti-discrimination policies...'

"...I thought I was too smart, too idealistic to end up this way, but LOOK at me! I've become an entrenched bureaucrat!"

Leading By Caving In

"Sorry, but you're overqualified."

'What - this is no parrot? Are you sure? The pet shop salesman is such an idiot! He should really look for a new job, eh?'

Sick America

A smoking gun emitting a pool of green slime

"We're throwing out the old rules."

'You say that you dreamt you got a job here?... And in your dream did you have a better CV than this?'

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life: 'The pay is good, but the pressure here...'

"Did you make the short list?"

"I understand that you've been demanding more vacation time. . . so we've decided to let you have the rest of your life off."

Making Amends: I haven't harrassed anyone in weeks....My new career: I'll be a secretary....to a female executive. Women can harass em all they life. I sentence myself to house arrest for 30 days, make that 90 days.

When CAN we talk?