Paperpusher Mugs

"I hear there's cake in the break room!"

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

A paperwork machine spews endless paperwork

"So we are agreed then, most of the targets we've set staff are completely unreasonable and we should just scrap them."

IN box...OUT is wastepaper basket on fire.

Storm in the out tray

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

Food Chain, Inc: 'UP...DOWN'.

'One of the new targets is targeting which targets we're meant to target.'

"Right, before we look at the covid figures for today, do we need another sheet of paper?"

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

"Simplified application form? . . . This IS the simplified application form!"

'As far as clock watching goes, you take the biscuit.'

'On your marks. Get set. Go!' - 'Come on! Keep going! You can do it!' - 'Yay! You're 8 hours closer to the grave!' - 'Oh, God.'

'That's my 'job security' barometer.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"You're fired, Withron. I got a terrific deal on a handful of ballpoints."

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

Bureaucracy gone mad!

'Good new. . . we're moving you to a bigger desk!'

"I know I should have gotten a cart, but I can't give up now."

Whelmed and Over-Whelmed

Bureau of the Damned

In and In Too Deep Desk Organizers.

'I'm afraid I still have more questions than answers.'

'Welcome aboard, Bob. Your job is to figure out what the hell happened here.'

Work avalanche

"It's a 670 page questionnaire on how to cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy!"

Distractions: Work Disputes

'Too long at his desk...we're going need surgery to cut him free.'

Cut and Run

'I don't know what he's doing or why he's doing it, but by golly, I love his work ethic.'

"So from the top. If they need urgent help it's form AC/765c, criticl interventions are CV/U657's and..."

'Of course I'd never fire you, Nelson. You've been working here for such a long time, you've become part of the furmiture!'