Career Skeptic Mugs

"It's a perfect position for you...You'll be able to use your degree in advanced Mathematics to count the tins you're stacking!"

"Sometimes I think I'm a victim of the 'Peter principle', I reached my real competence level some time ago..."

'It could have been worse...she might have chosen banking.'

The world's most unemployable family

"Todd was glad he had a support animal."

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

'Going back to work now that the kids are grown is one thing, Martha. Mounting a hostile takeover bid of my company is another!'

'Nice work, kid. Looks like you might be ready to sit up at the big boys' table.'

"According to your resume, you've done nothing of any real significance since inventing the wheel."

'Get out there and keep your job!'

'I've been thinking about quitting, but it's the only thing that gets me out of the house.'

'hard work and more hard work got me where I am today...Not my hard work of course.'

"She said that she's against combing marriage with a career....so I quit my job."

"Excuse me, Mr Newton, but some of the employees think that your promotion has gone to your head."

"Running is great. Unless you compare it with not running."

'You're too big to fail and be fired, but too small to move up to the job you'd like'

'Introducing one of our top salesmen despite his old age. . .'

"And someday, when you're a little further up the corporate ladder, maybe we'll let you meet J.R. himself!"

"When we met, Marc promised to be the wind under my wings but it turned out to be all hot air."

'Of course you can make a great career here! Look at me - when I started working, I was just called 'dude'. Now, only 25 years later, they call me 'MISTER dude'!'

Jones, Needham, Pinkner, Fortney - Just doing their jobs.

"I'd like your honest, unbiased and possibly career-ending opinion on something."

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

Dexter Flynn, Taxidermy Attorney.

"Your experience is impressive and your qualifications excellent but I'm afraid you're let down by not being the same as everyone else."

You are more than your job description.

'I just don't get it. The new motivational posters aren't helping at all!'

'You don't have much of a work history, do you, Mr. Laren?'

'I hate my boss!...'

'And what do you do for a living Gary?' 'I'm a Puppeteer.'

"...I'm available for interview, at your convenience!"

'You're not quite what we had in mind.'

"These oaths aren't binding all weekend are they?"

'You were a boring accountant in ten previous lives.'

"You could do a lot worse then be good at football... I know... some people have to settle for politics."