Paper Pile Conqueror Gifts

"I feel your pain."

Exams

'I guess it's time to do some filing.'

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

'I'll be late for dinner, dear, I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

The Great Pyramid of Paperwork

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

Government Offices / In tray, No Exit tray.

InIn by-products.

Research and Development: Now, Never.

Business cartoon about an incentive to complete the paperwork.

'I think it has reached critical mass.'

"Have a good weekend!"

Employer surrenders to case loads of workplace disputes and claims.

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

'Ah, the Bermuda Rectangle for files.'

"I'm bearly keeping ahead."

If I had sleeves, I'd roll them up...

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

Gary Basks in the glow of a fifteen-minute window with no empty cardboard boxes in the house.

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

'IN--IGNORE--OUT'

"I just want to go home, crawl into bed, and do some more work."

'Sir, I've got a computer to avoid a giant mess but unfortunately I can't find the computer in this giant mess!'

Stacked In Tray

"I'll assume, then, my remarks have hit a responsive chord?"

'Well done Hopkins - I hear you cleared your in tray for the first time in twenty years.'

'I'd like the short form instead...'

Careerist

"The boss is really pushing me to finish up before Thanksgiving."

Climbing in the Bureaucracy.

IRS agent to lady: 'Your refund was delayed because of shredded paperwork ... but we're putting it all together with red tape.'

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

"If you work hard and put in the hours, there's nowhere to go but up."

Security Dept. Keep. Out.