There are good days and bad days. There are days you couldn’t imagine a worse place to work. The folowing are tales researched for your entertainment from the Internet and might imply there are still worse corners of the planet for you to work.
1:- “As of tomorrow, employers will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks.”
This quote was from Fred at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA.
2:- “What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter.
Lykes Lines Shipping
3:- E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or daa. It should be used only for company business.”
4:- “This project is so important, we can’t let things that are more important interfere with it.”
Advertising/Marketing Manager, United Parcel Service.
5:- “Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.”
6:- “No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We’ve been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and i’ll let you know when it’s time to tell them.”
R&D Supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.
7:- “My boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that only neede corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and she couldn’t edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected.”
CIO of Dell Computers
8:- Quote from the Boss “Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.”
Marketing Executive, Citrix Corporation
9:- My siste passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When i told my boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, “That would be better for me.”
Shipping Executive, FTD Florists
10:- “We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.”
Switching Supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division
11:- We recently received a memo from senior management saying:“This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the memo mentioned above.”
Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division
12:- One day my boss asked me to submit a staus report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said, “If I had wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!”
New Business Manager, Hallmark Greeting Cards