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Cog-In-The-Wheel

On his desk, a cat has an in box, out box and litter box.

"Oh, yes, and there's plenty of opportunity for advancement."

"I don't want a G.O.A.T, I want a S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T."

"I realize we had to liquidate some assets, but don't you think I'd be more productive if I had a desk?"

"Why won't you teach us how to handle complaints?"

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

"This software will cut my workload in half, so I purchased two."

Trays on desk read, 'Here', 'There' and, 'Neither here nor there.'

"There are no big jobs, only small machines."

'So what do you think of my report, sir?'

'We feel it's very important to provide our employees with an extremely comfortable work-place environment. Primarily because we don't allow them to ever go home.'

Please bring me a few sharpened pencils and some lucrative business.

"He was orphaned at an early age and raised by two giant moths."

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

Fact: The average person spends 4.3 hours per week looking for things that are misplaced, misfiled or mislabeled.

"We should have taken the cubicles."

HR - Helping Relationships

'Item 56, we need to schedule a series of meetings to discuss whether we should have meeting to look at whether we're having too many meetings.'

'Should be home soon. I'm just clearing away the usual paperwork.'

'This chart shows how much time we waste every day looking at charts.'

"I tell you, it's a jungle out there!"

"I was just finishing up some spring cleaning."

'Right about here I added a drip coffee maker, with high caffeine premium blend coffee, to the employee break room.'

"How are you enjoying the job?" "Oh, Ilove the job...it's the work that I hate."

'I think I found the bottleneck, Boss.'

The suggestion box.

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

"How do you feel about working a four-day week?"

"I'm a bit concerned the staff don't respect me, they've given me a nickname."

Unsuccessful board meeting.

'In my day, we didn't concern ourselves with wimpy notions of workplace ergonomics.'

The worker/the man who monitors the worker/the man who wrote the draft policy guidelines on how to monitor the man monitoring the worker.

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