Manufacturing Specialist Mugs

"Where's the business end of this thing?"

Lean manufacture

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is serious. We have now fallen behind Japan in the manufacture of American flags."

In the Guru District

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

"DeepSeek" "Stargate"

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

"Jimmy, I want you to meet our new safety officer."

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"Remember Mr. Cockbundle is not just a 'customer', he is an important source of valuable and readily marketable data."

US and the EU

'My new cellphone has a 'self-help' program...'

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

"So, Mr Canary, I see you have experience as a mine safety specialist..."

"Has anyone else noticed that the efficiency experts seem a little robotic?"

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

"Yep, first the gold run out, then the microchip manufacturing went overseas."

'...And you're always complaining about the government's international trade agreements'

Information Tightrope.

The Design Artiste

125% tariff in escalating trade war.... ...Mitch realizes that everything he ordered is made in China

'You've done a good job for the company, Roger, but we just need someone who's a little less...analog.'

'Here it is - the world's largest miniaturization plant.'

Dan tells me you're an architect. That is so cool! Thanks! Cloud architect, actually.

"Bob put a chair with wheels on the table and climbed up to change a light bulb. Then the chair rolled away, Bob fell and... well, I guess we need a new industrial safety specialist."

The strong Canadian dollar is bad for the Canadian exporting manufacturers.

Mo's USA Bar: Tips/Tariffs

"We don't see ourselves as either a David or a Goliath. We're content to just be the company that manufactures the sling shots."

'It won't take bitcoins.'

HM Customs and Excise - 'One of the few things you can see from space is the great wall of Chinese imports.'

Along with being the first passengers on the space elevator, Fenwick and Charles set a new world record for longest awkward elevator silence.

"This is my last shift, I've been replaced by some bitch called Alexa."

"We want him to skip joined-up writing and get straight on to 3D printing."

Hot dog cart next to a hot spot cart.

'There's new evidence that my departure from my previous employer merely coincided with their brain drain.'