Family Restructuring Gifts

"I put them up after the divorce so that he knows his father is still part of his life."

'The kids in my class won't play with me because you're the only parents who aren't divorced.'

"Mommy want you to have everything she had when she was growing up."

'I'm with my minister father and my senator mom through the week and my senator mom through the week. I'm the ultimate division between Church and State.'

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

'I had a thought. Let's scrap everything and start a new fiscal year right now.'

'We divested ourselves of a division here, a subsidiary there, a branch here, an affiliate there...there's nothing left!'

"I have a feeling he understands more than we think."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

Speed of assimilation VS New team members

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

New Memer/Incumbent

"The water does taste a little funny. Maybe they added analgesics, to ease the pain of restructuring."

'Well, I'll say this: when the new boss came on board, it was a real game-changer for all of us!'

"I can't party like I used to, I've got enough Tupperware"

Do you mind if my mother joins our little business dinner ? You know what it's like, I don't want people from the office to think I'm sleeping my way to the top.

'We can't move in with my parents - they've moved in with grandma!'

'Dad, I don't need a two-thirds majority to over-ride your veto. I've got mom.'

"Teddy, you call this a 'clean room'?"

There's going to be a lot of this around here.

'Carson, this is the new organizational chart. This is you.'

"Just think how much we could save if we switched the heating off altogether."

Summer Outing Planning

Excess Baggage: The younger the traveler, the greater the amount of luggage required.

"Actually, this is where there was a slight earth tremor."

"Our profits have been out-sourced ."

"Apparently it's my fault, somehow, that we have an S.U.V."

Desk trays - 'In' and 'Out-sourced'.

How human migration got started.

'Can you do the dishes, love. I'll do the school run.'

'Downsizing through attrition will work if enough employees will cooperate and die.'

"How's the reshuffle going?"

"It's a small fridge, honey. Not everything is going to make the cut."