Sales Chaser Gifts

Woman crushed under satin sheets.

Shopping Torture

Final clearance sale.

Large Dollar Sign Office Block

Or as I prefer to call it, the 'feel-good' factor.

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

"Great! We're still going up! Chop a hole in the ceiling!"

"They're on special offer so I got three times more than I could ever use for twice as much as I could afford!"

'We need to change our luck. Let's move our headquarters to Redmond, the home of Microsoft.'

'Thanks to the huge bonus, I find myself forced to admire you.'

You can breed these if the environment is right.

'Parsloe, your desk is blocking the corporate food chain.'

"One day, my boy, all this will be retirement homes."

Stuff: You Don't Really Need But Still Don't Have.

'I hear you got your increase.' - 'Yes, that proves my theory, if you whine enough, you get anything you want.'

'We believe in using performance-enhancing drugs here.. they're called bonuses.'

Let's Celebrate

Breakthrough

We need to put more money into Lithuanian sardine futures...I think that warrants bonuses all around!

Gloat

"In layman's terms, it's £12,750."

"The pizza came late and it was cold!"

"I thought about looking for work in England, but I hear they're capping bonuses."

"I love being your agent, Nick, but the guys making the really big bucks now are the managers. Let me be your manager."

'We don't know what it is but it was in the sale so we thought we'd better get one before they sold out.'

'All right!! Bull's-eye!'

Counting my Bonus...

Holiday Sales: The Starting Line

"Remember when everyone told you this job would lead you nowhere? Well, you've arrived!"

Business Partners' vows

"I'm not a machine, Deborah. I can't just turn my greed on and off."

'I had a great year and I wasn't even trying.'

"And when the extended warranty kicks in, we send you a big can of new car smell."

'Nice work, kid. Looks like you might be ready to sit up at the big boys' table.'

'Good news! It looks as though the $50 million loss we expected to show is going to be a $30 million profit. You know, we should have hired a government accountant as our chief financial officer years ago.'