Paper Pile Conqueror Mugs

"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.'

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tick, tock-tock, tickety-tick tock ….

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.

Business cartoon about an incentive to complete the paperwork.

Research and Development: Now, Never.

'I think it has reached critical mass.'

"Have a good weekend!"

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

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

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

'Ah, the Bermuda Rectangle for files.'

Employer surrenders to case loads of workplace disputes and claims.

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

"I'm bearly keeping ahead."

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

'IN--IGNORE--OUT'

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

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

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.'

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

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."

Careerist

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

Climbing in the Bureaucracy.