Office Gossip Enthusiasts Mugs

'I need you to hold your ear to the ground to find out what the employees are up to...'

'Yes, I know there's a deadline on this project.'

21st century water cooler conversations.

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

"And you can rest assured that your problem is being ignored at the very highest levels."

'I heard the Board was talking about kicking you, but I don't know if it's upstairs or out.'

"What's wrong with swallowing up other companies?"

"Where we lack in productivity is made up by extremely low employee turnover."

"He sits there all day waiting to chase the email man."

'In hindsight, we should have spent more on marketing than entertainment.'

"A few years ago, you management gurus told us to downsize until the halls echoed..."

"Did you hear that that bastard McMinney has buggered of to work for Bank of America!"

The Corporate Trust: 'Since we have an agreement of transparency with the feds, I don't need to remind all of you that this meeting never happened.'

'Your resume seems in order, Mr. Lupo, but would you explain exactly why you want to work here> Mr. Lupo...?

'What I lack in cognitive flexibility, I make up for in moral flexibility.'

'I'll get back to you when I'm myself, Eddie.'

Boss to employee: 'I'm downsizing your paycheck.'

'I'm a fat cat in a dog-eat-dog world.'

'We want you to take the hindmost.'

"Sorry, you can't cash in your vacation time. Since you didn't use it, tell it Bon Voyage!"

Bureaucrats held up by the workers.

"You would be perfect if you weren't you!"

'Your job description is fairly simple: Stay in your cubicle and try not to make things worse.'

"The water does taste a little funny. Maybe they added analgesics, to ease the pain of restructuring."

'Hard day at work, dear?'

While you were out... the whole office talked about you.

'Are you the genius who came up with the 'Alternative Payment' program?'

'A word in my office Jones.'

"Excellent Simons, I admire a 'yes' man who's not afraid to say 'yes'."

'Miss Ryder, I'm ready to start executing.'

My husband doesn´t understand you.

'I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to make CEO.'

"There is a great deal of evidence that big savings can be made if departments shared resources... But I suspect that implementing the changes might be problematic if we can't even get Norman to lend out his pencil sharpener."