Communication Chaos Enthusiast Prints

Woman holding two phones together.

"The company's information flow is really simple: the boss doesn't tell the department managers anything, they don't talk to the team managers, who withhold everything from the workers."

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

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"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

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

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

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

She - Interpreter - He.

'Look, Dad, I made a pair of boots out of your chest waders.'

'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!"

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

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

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

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

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

The Love Psychologists

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

'What makes you think no-one understands you?'

'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.'

"We don't talk."

"Go ask your mother ... and I'll tell you why she's wrong."

Complaints departement for men and women.

"I've never seen a resume that's entirely made up of emojis. Let me take a few moments to decode it."