Modern Worker Muse Gifts

'There's lots of text messaging in this job. I need someone who can just sit back and twiddle their thumbs all day.'

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"I don't care if you are the Immediate Gratification Generation. Get out of my chair and back to the mailroom."

"I feel your pain."

Mr Yomp quickly got the hang of his new laptop.

"The museum of modern art on fire... an installation."

'Could you tone down the smile just a little?'

'I may not know much about art. But, I don't know what I like either.'

"It's called a treadmill workstation, not a stationary rat race."

Bureau of Missing Persons, "He works flextime and we have direct deposit, so it took me a few months to notice he was gone."

"Here's another one about Teddy bears."

'Have you ever thought about doing a children's book?'

"He never makes it past Stephen’s walk across Sandymount strand."

'I've tried hunting, and I've tried gathering, but what I really want is a desk job.'

'I wonder if he faked it?'

"I have to use the rest room. Would you mind mumbling 'Mm-hmm' on my conference call for a few minutes?"

Post Post

Man reading the title of an all white painting at an art gallery.

'I think it's called RED!'

Brancusi.

Unfinished Furniture.

"They're crowdsourcing your session."

"I think 'hot desking' works better with more than one desk."

No, Dad, they didn't give me a key to the 'executive washroom' with my promotion. These days you get the pin number to the unisex lounge.

'Couldn't you at least unbutton your top button?'

'We no longer handle the contracting out part. We contract that out.'

"This is one of his early works, from before he was able to throw the paint and actually hit the canvas."

Artist's model for a painting of Hamlet turns up to the studio with a black eye

"Oh, that's Harvey Willis. . . he's been here forever."

"It was the best of Starbucks. It was the worst of Starbucks."

Sculptor: 'Okay, SMILE!'

"Perhaps we could think of me sitting here as an art installation, that would help."

"Hey, hon - they published my article."

'Shouldn't a cultural center have more to it than video games?'

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