Career Setback Survivor Gifts

"He got demoted from human cannonball to human gumball."

"Hey, you stick your neck out on a regular basis, it's gonna happen. The important thing is to just get up and keep moving forward."

'I clawed my way to the top and then I clawed my way back to the middle.'

'I can't believe I didn't get that promotion. So many people have passed me by I feel like a road sign on the highway to success.'

"Wait, you're firing me?! But I was Time magazine’s Person of the Year!"

Caged Businessman

Man watches sales chart drop through the floor.

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

'Let me guess - you lost a fight against a young challenger who has now replaced you as the company's alpha male!'

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

"My ship had finally come in. . . then it sank!"

Ed is upset because he didn't get the promotion he had promised himself.

'How long's he been out there?'

"Mr. Joyner, while you were out, your carefully constructed financial empire collapsed like a house of cards."

"I'm not going to shoot the messenger, but I'm also not going to renew his grant."

"I'm gonna ride it out!"

"'Can correctly complete a CAPTCHA image 8 our of 10 times.' Any other skills?"

"He told me I was a flip phone expected to do a smart phone job."

"Night of the living adjunct professor" "What's a sabbatical?" "Tenure is boring!" "I have four desks in four schools!" "I have more prestige than a grad student."

"At least we no longer have the pressure of handling so much money."

'Think of it as a buyout package, Bob...without the 'buy' and just the 'out'!'

"Help, I'm being micro managed."

'This is where the company started handing out sick bags!'

Still Here

'So you see, no matter how you look at it, it's all downhill.'

'You're overqualified... so you'll have to act stupid.!

Don't jump! Just think what it will do to your wife and kids not to mention your career as a motivational speaker!

"We'll double our chances of recovery if we buy two lottery tickets."

"I refuse to go down with the ship."

'Really?! You didn't get fired today, either?! That's 60 days in a row! I'm so proud of you!'

"Your money is no longer working for you. It got laid off."

"I don't think much of the new Post-Brexit model."

'Your 401 (K) went down the drain, but if it's any consolation, you can keep the commemorative cup.'

"I think there's been a mistake... I applied for the caretakers job."