Middle Manager Mugs

'Middle managers play tennis.'

"On the one hand, eliminating the middleman would result in lower costs, increased sales, and greater consumer satisfaction; on the other hand, we're the middleman."

Information in, delay, & never out.

'Please save any questions for later, when the grief counselor gets here.'

Management: The illusion of control. Middle Management: The illusion of Usefulness. Wage Earners: The Illusion of Being Appreciated.

Climbing to the top.

'The man who manages the man who manages the man who manages the man who manages the worker.'

Imagine how much work we could get done if we weren't always sitting around talking about how much work we could get done.

'For various reasons, Mr. Bigmeister likes to limit contact with his rank and file employees.'

"It appears you're a bit overqualified to be exploited but somewhat underqualified to exploit others."

Middle Management.

'Your backbone is deteriorated... how long have you been a middle manager?'

"Great idea Norman,remember when did I have it?"

The function of middle management.

'I was hoping we could cut out the middleman.'

'Honey, are we interested in making a contribution to the society for the ethical treatment of middle managers?'

"His executive functioning skills are low, but his middle-management functioning skills are quite promising."

'The problem is that this problem management team has got more members than there are workers who can cause problems!'

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

"He's worried that the changes might only affect 10% of the job, but it might be the 10% he knows something about!"

Golden Parachutes for Middle Managers

'I'd like to thank you for participating in our new 'colleague empowerment policy'.'

"Top management told middle management to tell me to tell you to shape up."

"How we doing on those commandments?"

Vegetate.

Department of Wastage - Formerly 'Middle Management'

'Mason, it appears that you're the only one in middle management who hasn't 'Liked' the 'Cute Puppy' video I posted on Facebook.'

'This was caused by a power surge by one of our middle managers.'

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

'What people don't appreciate is that if you don't have middle managers to oversee forms like the 566/c4-566 then you wouldn't even know how many 566/c4-566 had been filled out.'

Woman looking at notice on bulletin board: 'Middle Managers without Borders Support Group.'

'We really need to get on-message about out responsive reciprocal concepts, on-message.'

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

Welcome Bureaucrats! (Convention of bureaucrats).

'Well, you wanted a bigger job.'