Clock Punchers Pillows

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

'You may now turn over your paper and begin.' - 'Sir!' - 'Yes?' - 'What is it?' - 'I think Train 'A' and Train 'B' might be going to crash!'

Doug had trouble getting home at a decent hour.

"Actual results indicate that the statistical analysis of the data which projections were based on may have been wrong."

"I had to skip my workout."

Stressed over time management

"Make a sandcastle with you? Of course darling. What about Thursday 3.15pm?"

'In hindsight, we should have spent more on marketing than entertainment.'

"Hey, no problem. I am one with multiple tasks."

'This graph may need some explaining...'

'Thanks for coming to this 12.01 appointment, but I'm afraid my 12.02 has now arrived.'

Took On Too Much

Re-Tooling Costs - "Could you be a little more precise than umpteen million?"

"Let me put on my 'working' head."

"Remember that optimistic, slightly crazy, throw a dart at the wall forecast? We beat it."

I've checked - it goes down to the basement.

Stress

Monday around 9PM.

Sister to brother: 'It's kind of like alphabet soup, only for numbers crunchers.'

'Now think, Harris, what did you do different on that day?'

'Ooops! My mistake. That was the yearly budget estimate, no the monthly estimate.'

'Don't worry! Since 28% of my salary goes to the government, I've decided to work 72% of the time!'

'Damn! McGee's good!'

Hourglass Dumptruck

"I can count to 20...Without taking off my shoes."

Given seven minutes to finish, he flashed through the weekly report.

'So, how long will this take?'

'His next appointment is on the 17th when the clock's little hand is on the two and the big one's on the nine.'

'We're in good shape. Nobody understands our financial statement.'

I've managed to get your tax bill down to zero, this year ... however, my bill is $10 million.

'Honey, the long-run is here!'

Quicksands of time