Work Break Strategist Pillows

"Be patient. He'll have to visit the water cooler sooner or later."

"I figure if I was still employed, I wouldn’t get to spend all this time with you!"

Working Holiday

"Yes, six to seven weeks is my life expectancy! Once I learned that, I thought, the hell with it, I'll stop working and start travelling..."

"No thanks, I brought my lunch."

Job satisfaction comes from doing what you enjoy, without the boss finding out.

Temporarily Unavailable

"Is there an option to make my out-of-office message permanent?"

'A representative will be with you in twelve minutes... so, if you have to go to the bathroom, please go now...'

Stress Clinic: 'Stepped out to smell the roses.'

'Bring me the Wimbish report and a short worm, Ms Perkins, no time for lunch today.'

'It's come to my attention that you're becoming a bit of a clock watcher.'

'It's nice to have a break isn't it.'

Peaceful holiday

'I'm taking a year off to just migrate.'

"I love the smell of unemployment in the morning."

The Smug Unemployed Monkey

Senior executive holding guitar hitchiking on open road in desert landscape.

'If I'd known it was this easy, I'd have hit the escape key long ago.'

What an attitude... Yes, but he does the job brilliantly.

"So hardly working....or hardly working?"

Live to work or work to live?

"It's not a nap if I'm sitting at my desk."

'Yes, it's a very interesting show, but we really need to talk about all the time you waste watching it - perhaps during the next commercial break.'

The trouble with trying to quit smoking.

"Nothing like taking a few weeks off to spend time with the kids Eh!"

"Your holiday is finished George, get over it!"

'All I want is a chance to PROVE money can't make me happy.'

Sabbatical Diary: Day Six - I notice my surroundings.

'What've you got in the way of long term sick holidays ?'

"Would you mind if I took a year off to find myself... with pay?"

"I like my coffee hot, black and delicious. Ah well, two out of three ain't bad."

"How goes the gap year?"