Public Sector Crusader Mugs

'I do feel for these quangos.'

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

"And need I remind you, the 'art of the deal' is the lifeblood of this company."

"They've hiked up our targets again...I'm going to have to put in some overtime to have any chance of meeting them!"

Why Cows Leave Home

"Everyone, please welcome our new VP of being promoted and paid lots more than you for no apparent reason!"

'There he goes, the bravest M&A knight that our kingdom has ever known.'

'Risky, but I like it!'

'Please remember, it's not a lie if it turns a profit.'

'This is the last time we post job openings,'

'I have a typical nine to five job. It's enough work for nine people and I'm treated like a five year old.'

Production: Urgent, Rush, Super Rush.

Twisted Peel works overtime.

'I didn't realize we'd employed a cyber bully in you, Miss Tweedy.'

"So you want to give yourselves a pay raise and change term limits so you can continue to ignore voter mandates and introduce ridiculous legislation?"

'Have you seen the ruddy margins the Chinese expect us to take up for this work?'

He calls it 'delegating authority' I call it 'passing the buck'

'They never let you forget that your intellectual property belongs to them.'

Privatisation of the NHS

Not The Real Me

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

'It says...desperately seeking someone to explain the difference between Obamacare and the Affordable Health Care Act...'

"We appreciate the good job you're doing, but can you do it more thanklessly?"

U.S.Postal Service - Then and Now

'I warned you not to ask for a shorter work week.'

"Lunchward ho!"

Applications

The European Union aims to eradicate tax evasion.

"Get back here and clean out your desk."

"Daddy needs to relax. He spent another long day at work extolling the virtues of his stand up desk."

"Today's meeting is about meeting to plan a meeting to arrange a meeting about managing our meetings."

Suggestion box/Unreasonable Demands box

'Where do you see yourself five years from now?'

"The Sales Department suggests we teach Customer Service personnel how to assist customers without telling them where to go."

'Mommy, you'll never guess what. My hi-tech start-up just merged with a Fortune 500 company.'