Management Quotes
DILBERTED
A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert quotes" contest. They were
looking for people to submit quotes from their real life
Dilbert-type managers. Here are some of the submittals...
1. 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
Corporation in Redmond, Washington.)
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 data. It
should be used only for company business. (Accounting maner,
Electric Boat Company)
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. 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.)
6. 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)
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what
'I' say." (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. "How About Friday?" 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)
9. "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)
10. 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)
11. 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.)
Simon Ratcliffe 09/16/1998Categories: Slightly Smutty