Real Life Company Quotes
- As of tomorrow, employees 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 was the winning quote from Fred
Dales at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, WA.)
- What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. (Lykes
Lines Shipping)
- E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only
for company business. (Accounting manager, ElectricBoat Company)
- This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important
interfere with it. (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)
- Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. 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.)
- My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that only
needed 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)
- Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."
(Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
- My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I
told my Boss, he said she died 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)
- "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)
- We recently received a memo from senior management saying: "This is to
inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject mentioned
above." (Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division)
- One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a
project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He
said, "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!"
(New business manager Hallmark Greeting Cards.)
- As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our
company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo one of the
sentences I mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training
manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was
called into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president
wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she
wouldn't stand for "perverts" (pedophilia?) working in her company. Finally, he
showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired - and the word
"pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he
looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send
back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two days later, a
memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be
found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A
month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my
resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. (Taco Bell
Corporation)
[ Author Unknown -- from 'keepAhead' (IwantTwisted@keepAhead.com) ]
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