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This quote came from our production meeting this morning, uttered by our marketing manager, in reference to an unobtainable production goal requested by a customer


“So what you are telling me is that I need to find a way to make the client happy without giving him what he wants’’

Michael-
Sounds like you are working in Dilbert-land...like most folks these days.

Cheers
John

Oh, that is classic...

I was once on a deadline once and we were under serious pressure. The guy I was working for at the time was sending me down the wrong road... it was just totally going to cause us to spin our wheels and waste a lot of time.

I said - "... just think about it for a minute, this will never work..."

and his response?

"thinking is a luxury that we cannot afford."


I had it printed, framed, attributed it to him and proudly hung it on my office wall.   

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

That's great Michael! Brock......your not still working for that guy are you? That's just to scary.

Here's one I like

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

George Carlin

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

Michael and Brock,

Both of those stories sound almost exactly like thinks I've heard at work. Recently I've been "involuntarily separated" after 20+ years in IT. Not the first time, probably not the last.

Here's a quote I think appropriate for most people in corporate environments

Captain: "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice, you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set cause your gonna get your mind right"

Greg
"I got my mind right, Boss"

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GregH
Fot Wuth

Haha, thats great!!

Another one, I got it from Dana Bourgeois:

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Great quality
Great price
Great service

Pick any two.
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Greg - Been there on the "involuntary separation" myself several times.  I trust that you will find better employment soon.

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Steve Walden
Aspiring Builder,
Bartlesville, OK

I can equal that:

Worked for an acute care facility ("hospital") for 13+ years. Was in a meeting once where the President of the facility was raking out the crowd because a nurse had "confessed" to a patient's family that she had, indeed, given their family member the wrong amount of a particular medication, and it had, indeed, made said patient violently sick.

When one of the attendees had received enough of the requisite rump chewing she asked, "And just what are we supposed to tell the family when they confront us with that which they know is already true?"

President: "Patients NEVER suffer pain, inconvenince or even death at the hands of their caregivers regardless of the reason. They may, periodically, be subjected to an adverse outcome related to their stay in our facility, but we never make mistakes."

That became the buzzword that has stuck to THIS very day: nobody dies, gets worse, or suffers from a personnel related mistake - they "succumb to an adverse outcome."

Bill

PS: He's still there!

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Heard from a Boss I used to respect, when they were trying to downsize a 30yr veterans pay and he wasn't going for it, stating he couldn't even provide for his family!

Quote:

What's more important to you, your job, or your family?


True story!
And they say there is... no... Devil!

                                  

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Driver carries NO cash .. he's married, and a luthier to boot !!!!

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me-
than a prefrontal lobotomy"....

I've personally been down lately at/because of work. After 26 years the corporate insanity is about to drive me over the edge.

I found a book that I've only read half of (last night): "Orbiting the Giant Hairball; A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace, by Gordon MacKenzie. This guy was a "Hallmarker" (worked at Hallmark cards in the "creative depatment" for 30 years.

The focus of the book is how to work in a corporation without losing who you are (and your creativity to it)...Not a lot of "how" to do it so far, but a lot of good thought challenge in it. Challenge to continue to grow and NOT lose yourself. Nice mix of humor in it as well.

Joe