Satirical Office Observer Prints

"Can you fire me in half an hour?... I'm just about to go on my tea break."

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

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

"If we can just get beyond this 'I'm the boss' mentality and concentrate on a simple 'What I say goes' outlook, I think this will all work out."

Sign - Halt manager crossing

"That report on corporate redundancy... I'd like it in triplicate."

"Well the good news is that after the reorganisation you'll be leading the team."

'Office' block tightening it's belt

'We haven't improved quality, but we've made it easier to return.'

"Who gave you permission to ask for a raise?"

"Perhaps this slide whistle can better illustrate what this graph is telling us."

"That arrow always goes to the bottom when I walk by."

Buisnessman Of The Hour - I'd like to introduce our guest but he is 45 minutes late

"To address this mistake we must be professional and use root-cause analysis. I'll start by saying it's not my fault...."

'Blast it, Peterson -- What's this I hear about you letting our profits trickle down?'

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

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

"My biggest weakness? I'm a perfectionist."

'Inevitably, I come to work early, leave late and alienate everyone.'

Businessman: 'We're like one big family here, because of all the nepotism.'

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

"I suppose you want the rest of the day off!"

"We should have taken the cubicles."

"They found a use for that old paper shredder."

'And from what we've been able to determine, this is the tweak that broke the paradigm's back.'

Sales chart plummets into employees head.

'A High-pain job? Yes, I believe we have that.'

"I'm looking for a 'yes man' who can say 'no' without sounding negative"

Suggestions box in a toilet.

"Do you think we should look again at who we invite to these meetings?"

'I'm sorry, Henderson - But profits are down and we have to make sacrifices.'

The role of administration.

"I was a lot happier with the elephant in the room."

"I see the downsizing continues."

"Let's kick off this Human Resource action with a game of Musical Chairs."