Junior Manager Gifts

'Would you mind if these junior managers have a go at assessing the profitability of your treatment?'

"You're invited to our management excursion. Come dresses as a pinata."

'I've stepped on so many people for the last 20 years to get where I'm at, and I'm still only a middle manager.'

A very young man being hired as a groom.

'It's a senior management position. We need someone who can listen politely, and then say no.'

"May I skip the usual Show & Tell and try to hustle some merch?"

MUM! No one wanted to buy my cowpats

'When will I be old enough to have my own people?'

"I'm cutting out a complete layer of management."

Fantasy Business Management

'I was speeding right along toward my goal of moving up from middle management, when a cost-cutting measure overtook me!'

'In keeping with the team approach, we've traded you for two middle managers to be named later.'

Food manufacturing industry in a soup.

Man looking at company organisation chart, he's at the very bottom.

'This year, Sire, I've created a socko narrative of scatological raillery and rollicking nihilism which ends with a sexy justification for third quarter losses.'

"Jones is our go-to-thankless-job-guy!"

Boys Cooking

"Can't complain- it's against company policy."

Tim's marketing solutions

"I guessed my way to a perfect score on the GMAT, then I guessed my way through grad school and several middle management jobs...."

"This next song's about spreading risk in a volitile market by diversification"

"I now realize that my 'show no mercy' campaign for the corner office was a big mistake."

Welcome Bureaucrats! (Convention of bureaucrats).

The Surly Yoof

"Congratulations J.L., I hear you're getting another 'really' in your title."

'The global economy supplies basic tools. A lot of us get the axe.'

'We do a little hiring and a little firing, and between you and me, I enjoy the firing more.'

"To maintain proper respect for management, you have to call me 'Boss Joey!' Unless, you know, you don't want to."

"Well, our toxic wastes are ten times more harmful thinner hazardous wastes."

'This doesn't look good.'

Department of Wastage - Formerly 'Middle Management'

NHS Trust Hospital: Management Team/Medical Staff

Middle Manager

"During Junior Executive training, Emily learned that power-mad toddies, bereft of honest opinions, climb the greasy ladder of corporate success by licking boots and suppressing controversial subjects. But the pay is very, very good."

"By the time I climbed up to this job, I was too tired to do it."