Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Work is fun: They said it

Quote from telephone inquiry "We're only hiring one summer intern this year and we won't start interviewing candidates for that position until the Boss' daughter finishes her summer classes.

Quote from the Boss... "I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."

"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything." Harold Coffin.

"They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one." Rita Rudner

"I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors." Seymour Hicks

"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure." Keith Davis.

"We were allowed to accept gifts of flowers, candies, jewels, furs, yachts, castles - but never money." Quentin Crisp

"To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in." Doris Lilly.

"Fire the whole purchasing department. They'd hire Einstein and then turn down his recquisition for a blackboard." Robert Townsend

"I could have done this job myself in twenty minutes, but as things turned out I had to spend two days trying to find out why it had taken someone else three weeks to do it wrong." JL McCafferty