Communication Avenger Gifts

'Ugh...I hate phone solicitors.'

"My email is down... talk to me."

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

"No, I really DO love you. It's just that my committee has some issues."

Couples' therapy

She - Interpreter - He.

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

"He keeps reissuing everything I take issue with."

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

WHO checklist

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Is there such a thing as over communicating?'

"I think your idea of stress relief is drastic!"

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

The Love Psychologists

We never got anything done around here until we invented verbs.

"I suppose we should start with listening skills!"

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

'He says he needs his own space.'