Thesis Maestro Mugs

"Working on your M.Ed. thesis when you should be teaching is not closing the research-classroom gap."

'I'm sorry but I'm afraid the corporation is going in a different direction.'

There's no such thing as a triple carburetor bypass!

'Lion Tamer experience hey? Well, I have a project currently needing your management skills...'

'He was only reaching for his powerpoint presentation pointer.'

'Ms Simpson, I believe I've finally done it. I've written the Great American Memo.'

'I'm going to practice on you before I start managing other people.'

"I guess someone got up on the wrong side of the podium today."

He then drew a number of smaller pie charts behind the bigger chart. That helped to put it into perspective.

1 Only Smart Hammer Instructions

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

Although not felt by everone, Wanda's powrful jargon sent seismic shock waves through some of the more geologically unstable department in the organization.

"You need to take the weak parts of your presentation and work them into something that won't get you fired."

It's an autobiography of a guy who spent his whole life trying to get his first @#^& book published. Editor.

'It's good of you to go out of your way to show me what not to do, Mum.'

'A few messages came in during your lunch break.'

Editor.

'And this is after the creation of a Special Effects Department.'

Traffic Management Strategic Group

'Who wants the talking stick?'

'What do you mean, the chart resembles an iceberg?'

"Lucky Guess."

Project Manager Showdown

Hats: Management/Good Job/Friendly but Aloof.

"Well, here's your problem. You need an O right there."

"well I'll be - you are the boss of me."

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

Sir Patrick Moore.

'He was always too busy to sit for his portrait.'

'My computer? - I got rid of it for insubordination!'

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

IRS tax instructions.

'Your new book is full of mistakes: the critics will have a field day.'

"I'm glad my team places me on a pedestal."

'Look on it as... constructive criticism.'