Data Center Operations Pillows

"Our cloud computing services include IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, NaaS, CaaS...and BaaS!"

No, I didn't know they were going to cut the office furniture budget in half.

'Noticeboard? I forgot it was there to be honest.'

'We invest so much money in training staff...it's a mystery to me why businesses would risk losing them.'

Rocket Launch Control Centre Back in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

"Why can't the rest of you be more like Rollins, here? He does his homework!"

"Maybe now, we could look at customer care'?"

Santa sits in front of computers with naughty data and nice data screens.

'We should buy London and ship it to the States!'

Airline Debts: Layoffs to help us stay afloat.

The Department of Mystery - No one really knows who we are or what we do, including us.

'The massive arrests have made the plans for downsizing much easier.'

Failure/Due Diligence

'ACE Heating and cooling' 'What's Hot' 'What Not'

In and Out Sourced.

'It's not surprising. The production department is in Spain, the warehouse is in Korea, the accounting division is in Bolivia, the board of directors is in Canada.'

"The torch is passed, but since the company is going green, I'm passing a high efficiency, solar powered multi LEC prism spotlight."

"Of course we'll give you a choice. Would you prefer to lose your job to outsourcing or to robotic automation?"

Never tell the boss "You can count on me" during inventory.

'Everything is in the Cloud.'

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

'We're a non-profit organisation. We didn't plan it that way, but that's how it worked out.'

Supply Chain

'I think I found the bottleneck, Boss.'

Oh no ... Outsourcing

'We need to schedule a few impromptu meetings...'

"We are extremely short-staffed here and you would need to be okay with that. For example I’m the janitor, but I also do interviews in between emptying trash cans."

"We need to eliminate the middleman."

"Well in our defence we did get the numbers right they were just in the wrong order!"

Cheap Labour Countries.

Janet always was ahead of the curve...she outsourced herself.

"We're going to have to save some money...and one way is to rewrite the rules on expenses claim."

"How flexible are we on the issue of flex time?"

"Amazon wants to open a facility here due to our friendly labor environment."

Very fat 'Office' facing more waiters with trays of demand