Work Quotes

It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
—Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
—William Faulkner, interview in Writers at Work, 1958

Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been company policy to regard policy as a responsibility of management and administration as a responsibility of admin, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

How to build a company? an analogy

The method consists of,

1. Put all the candidates in a warehouse.
2. Provide 200 bricks each.
3. Do not give any guidance on what to do.

After six hours, go back and check what they did.

Follows the analysis of results;

1. Those who counted the bricks hire as Accountants.
2. Those who counted and then recounted the bricks are Auditors.
3. Those who have arranged the bricks in a very strange, hard to understand manner, put them in Planning, Design and Production Control.
4. Those that broke the bricks and are trying to paste them again should go to Information Technology (Development).
5. Those that are sitting chatting or are clueless send them to Human Resources.
6. Those who have already left the premises are the Managers.
7. People who are looking out the window staring into infinity are responsible for Strategic Planning.
8. Those who are talking to each other with their hands in their pockets showing that they have not even touched the bricks and would never do that, greet them with great respect and put them on the Directors Board.
9. The ones that have raised a wall and hiding behind are the Marketing Department.
10. Those who claim not to be seeing a single brick in the room and that bricks were never there are lawyers, refer to the Legal Department.
11. Those who claim that the bricks are a mess, without identification, without standardization and with wrong measures, put in Quality Control.
12. Those that begin to call others ‘comrades’, release them immediately before they create a union.