Thursday, February 15, 2007
Thursday Thoughts
Here are some actual quotes from executives:
1. "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." -- marketing exec. at Citrix Corp.
2. "What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter." -- Lykes Lines Shipping manager
3. "This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it." -- UPS marketing manager
4. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." -- R & D manager, 3M
5. "We know communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with employees." -- AT&T
6. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken Wednesday, and employees should receive their cards within two weeks." -- Microsoft, Richmond WA
7. "We can't afford to pay a high school student to come in and file, and we can't afford to pay you overtime to file. Just file during business hours, and do your other work on overtime." -- a former boss of mine
How about you? Have you heard some classics fall from the lips of management?
1. "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." -- marketing exec. at Citrix Corp.
2. "What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter." -- Lykes Lines Shipping manager
3. "This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it." -- UPS marketing manager
4. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." -- R & D manager, 3M
5. "We know communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with employees." -- AT&T
6. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken Wednesday, and employees should receive their cards within two weeks." -- Microsoft, Richmond WA
7. "We can't afford to pay a high school student to come in and file, and we can't afford to pay you overtime to file. Just file during business hours, and do your other work on overtime." -- a former boss of mine
How about you? Have you heard some classics fall from the lips of management?
4 Comments:
Cute- Esp the AT&T one (I deal with that attitude from them daily)
I never heard any, but one of my supervisor's was the type *You do all the work and I'll take the credit for it.* And I told him where to shove it. :) He eventually got fired.
The one song of Iz that is doing well is his version of Over The Rainbow. It's on alot of commercials and Movies. He sings one of my Great-grandmother's composition called Kuhio Bay. I don't know if it's on one of your CD's. Yeah, my Tutu wrote that song.
classic!!!
did you laugh when your boss said that to you and is that why he's a former boss?
lol number 2 sounds like something my boss would say ..lol Cute list. It would be funny if it were not so sad and true.
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