Detail-oriented Planner Mugs

"Yours lacks focus."

Surveyor

"Yeah, but that one's a little bit hard to reach."

"We only got six days of funding."

"For heaven's sake, Ogden, it's vacation time! Must you make your little lists even on vacation time?"

When Engineers Crack.

"The anger management consultant said he wasn't going to alter his **** dates at this t****stage which fits in with the 'managing change' consultant who said it was to late to change her plans..."

'We took the old plan, folded in half, and now it's the new plan.'

"I think you might need to start again."

Innovation & Calculation

A cat is hiding in a block of cheese to lure a mouse out of its hole.

"Compare Calculate Contrast Before you make a move"

'Then it's settled. We'll make 7 million with blue handles, 5 million with red handles, 4 million with purple handles and 2 million with green handles.'

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

"We must kill this initiative, so let's mainstream it."

Engineer on the move.

"That's it - I've had it up to here with measurement devices."

"We're still trying to sort out the details."

Bad Office Planning

Father Time Management

Clear construction agreements are important.

We thought we'd put in the detail later.

"I thought an illogical framework would work better."

"I'm afraid the umbrella constitutes an enclosed space and must be taken down."

Car insurance, breakdown cover, mobile insurance, home insurance, camera insurance... - 'Life insurance, health insurance, professional indemnity, and tax insurance.' - 'Let the bad times roll... heh, heh!'

"It's definitely Friday. I'm looking at my calendar."

"We can't go back to what we do best because that's obsolete now!"

I'm afraid we had to cancel the 'perfect planning' seminar. we forgot to book the hotel until it was to late and the speaker we'd hoped to use died in 1958

'Steve, I admire your determination to make this plan work.'

'Company planning department'

Popping an idea.

We find this model works better for us!

'It's bad enough we missed every deadline, but we're the long-range planning committee!'

Man hanging out underpants on washing line.