Work-life Warrior Gifts

'I'm afraid you'll have to work late tonight, I want you to attend this talk on work-life balance.'

Exec Has His Whole Life At His Desk

"The health and safety people are worried about 'stress' and 'work life balance'. Have some ideas on my desk first thing Monday!"

Work/Personal Life Balance Beam

"This place caters to workaholics."

'Sitting at a desk all day and bringing work home is how schools prepare you for a career.'

The Basic Blueprint for 99% of Today's Conversations (or So it Seems)

'Budget cuts have forced us to drop our day-care program. I've contacted your mother to come and pick you up.'

'My work-lifestyle balance is shot, I'm either working or I'm dead!'

'Life is all about balance. That's why you're overworked and underpaid.'

"There are rumours going round that you have a home lift."

"Management wants to introduce more flexibility into our working hours . . . starting with the 108 hour week."

"I don't perform well under pressure."

"If anyone asks I'm leaving early to spend a bit of time with my kids."

"I have an app that reminds me twice a day I still have a life waiting for me after work."

Desk bins on a desert isle.

"Oh, some compensation for making us miss Happy Hour working late...we get to sit on bar stools."

"Son, a living isn't something you make. It's something you endure."

"I'm off early, hoping to spend a quiet evening with the kids."

"We were unwinding, and Frances come unwound completely."

"Another problem is that I haven't had dinner with my family for a week."

'Quick, Harry, I need a presentation before I go to my daughter's show and tell.'

'Little has changed since you called saying you had to work overtime. Except John Wayne died. Oh, and there's a new thing called the 'Internet'.'

Working Late

The other digital divide.

'I do the work of three men...how about giving one of us a decent salary?'

'I'm married to my job, and now it wants a trial separation!'

'Anybody who has a life, gets more work.'

'I think placing an emphasis on 'flexible working' will really help in the long term.'

"Can't you leave the health and safety at work!"

The Need for Delegation

"I gotta go. I see an opening in the maelstrom."

"I can't stop conducting random security checks."