Corporate Reform Pillows

'Look, I agree that you deserve the same salary as your male counterparts, but I have a responsibility to defend the traditional pay structure.'

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

"It used to Casual Friday. Now it's Furlough Friday."

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

'You did turn the company around... but we liked it the way it was...'

"Tell the vice presidents they've downsized enough."

Liberal Vote-Shaming Explained

'If sales don't improve incrementally... our business outlook will change excrementally...'

"Ahh... don't you just LOVE that new, re-organized-under-bankruptcy-protection smell?"

"What we didn't have but obviously needed was an alarmist."

"Let's kick off this Human Resource action with a game of Musical Chairs."

President S Grant's Proposed Civil Service Reform not to the Taste of Certain Senators

'This merger will cut jobs 40%, reduce salaries 30% and increase the work hours 25%. Your job is to make this look like the best thing that ever happened to our employees.'

'This is what happens when we give up our resistance to change.'

"Don't worry! He's totally changed..."

Healthcare declaration

Sick

'You wiseaces who said, this factory would move to China are wrong! It's moving to India!'

No - None sense, take-charge, inc. - Formerly: Happy-go-lucky, inc.'

Middlesex Election, 1804- Burdett and his Radical Allies Anticipate Victory

The Tammany Ring Defeated- NY Mayor Oakey Hall as 'The Last Thorn of Summer'

"Jim, say hi to Tom, our severance consultant."

'Stop complaining and be thankful we found a place for you in the restructuring!'

Bureau of Power to the People

'Our company has hit an icebery and is sinking fast. Of course, it's all very symbolic.'

'All those who think change is good, say aye...'

Stephen King's latest horror novel: 'Healthcare reform debate'

'Due to budget cuts we are having to take on more temporary staff.'

"Reduced budgets are a challenge...Rather than just talk you through it we'd like to give you a practical demonstration of how to 'maximise' resources from limited resources."

NHS Reforms: See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil.

'I'm not looking for something that will eliminate 10% of my employees. I want something that'll eliminate all of them.'

Real Congressional reform's a must.....

'This book says there's a point where downsizing your management staff becomes 'dumbsizing.''

'We need a knee jerk reaction against private sector practices in the NHS!'

"We tried every fix the insurance companies allow but it still won't fly!"