Commercial Critics Gifts

"It's 4 A.M.—maybe you'd sleep better if you bought some crap!"

"I think I got a new song that will resonate with our generation right now, and then again in forty years when they hear it in pharmaceutical ads."

"It says skip ad in 10 seconds, what do you want to do till then?"

'Do you think, perhaps, that we could start shooting for a few longer-term goals around here?'

"We need to make some cuts. We'll start with integrity, accountability, openness, and transparency."

'That's our mission statement.'

"Everyone at Megadrug is committed to the benefits of spoken therapies, which is why we developed 'nitrazone' to enhance the experience."

'No, it's not really good - that's our lawsuits-to-earnings ratio.'

"The new chairman has dropped the brain-storming meetings."

'An exxpert team set up a team of special consultants, that then set up a committee whose members asked their 7 year old kids. Now 14 months later they've concluded we're not efficient enough.'

'We've just become the biggest corporation in America.. let's celebrate today and begin downsizing tomorrow.'

'Our problem is how to lower quality while raising prices...'

'I really wish you guys would knock that off.'

'I give this one about three months...'

"We offer a generous flex time policy - you can work your 90 hours per week any way you'd like."

XYZ Inc, putting a folksy, human face on unfettered corporate greed for over 50 years.

"The Supreme Court says a corporation is a 'person?' Well, have you ever tried to take a corporation out for a nice, friendly beer?"

'The recession is over, again.'

Desk plaque: 'P. Burnside, Upper-Echelon Nincompoop'

'If you have nothing to do don't come round here and do it.'

"Brandon isn't adapting well to the open office concept."

'Sorry, I can't give you a raise. However, I can offer you a splendid opportunity to share the profits.'

Suggestions box in a toilet.

"I think he's overreacting a little when it comes to controlling his employees."

"When we changed the company name, the stocks went through the roof!"

"Progress is going around in the same circle...but faster."

Someone needs to tell him that having Churchillian leadership skills requires more than a 10'' havana

"At First Infidelity we're all about integrity...."

"Openness and transparency are a big part of our corporate mythos."

'The question is - to what level of data do we wish to stoop.'

ANOTHER FINE MESS, INC.

The Freedom of the Press is Worth Fighting For!

"The bad news is we've fired 80% of your office. The good news is we're fixing the coffee machine."

"The only good news this year, gentlemen, is our massive bonuses."