Overachievers Mugs

Workaholics Anonymous meeting: 'No one showed up. Everyone is working.'

"Looks like a storm ahead, Captain." "I think you're being over dramatic."

'Type-A personality if I ever saw one - he claims he is now going to swim upstream!'

'I told you hard work would pay off in the third grade, Cate...You've had three job offers.'

Overjumpers

"Doing your homework may lead to a job that has homework."

'Wow! I never thought it would actually WORK!'

Genius Envy

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

Overloaded with extracurricular activities, Griffin's body began to grow an extra brain to cope with it all.

"Could you please downgrade this to a C? High expectations bring out the worst in my parents."

"Rosalie—your poor performance this year has reduced your parents' investment in you by almost seventy per cent."

"You'll never make it as a doctor with handwriting like this. I understood every word."

'They're a very successful family.'

Too big to fail

Workaholics anonymous meeting.

"Stop applying! You've been accepted to three universities!"

'No ulcers shows me you haven't reached your full potential.'

"You're late, Myers!"

"Congratulations Professor, the committee 'okayed' your grant request."

'That's your report card and might I add you need to try a little harder.'

"The chairman said he wanted to see you when you got out of hospital."

'I have her registered in a pre-med nursery program.'

Ladder of success"...Perhaps, you'd like our economy model."

"This has been a productive homework session!"

"You promised to stop bringing your work home."

Still a Disappointment to his Mother

'As much time and effort as he puts into this job, you'd think there was some money in it.'

'...then I got my masters in psychology, and a year later I earned my Ph.D. in sociology. By the time I get my master in math and my doctorate in history, I'll be ready to retire.'

"With a good education you can grow up to be anything I want you to be."

Office Task Map

A woodpecker fashions a statue of a woodpecker.

"I can't believe it...a 'B' average on my report card? I'm not that smart! The theories of probability predict it's likely that the school's data system somehow encountered a catastrophic breakdown."

'Ten 'A's? Frankly son, I'm disappointed that you're not more of a disappointment to me.'

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