"Actually, we all think you're doing a pretty good job. We just feel it would be more fun to have a celebrity for C.E.O."
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business, businessmen, businessman, businesswoman, businesswomen, executive, executives, corporation, corporations, corporate, company, companies, manager, managers, management, hierarchy, demotion, demotions, demoted, ceo, chief executive officer, c.e.o., ceos, chief executive officers, c.e.o.s, celebrity, celebrities, famous people, famous person, star, stars, celeb, celebs, meeting, meetings, board, boards, board member, board members, upper management, good job, fun, more fun, replaceable, figurehead, representative, office, office life, modern life"Langsford, will you please stop interjecting quotes from Kahlil Gibran?"
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kahlil gibran, literary quote, literary quotes, novelist, novelists, writer, writers, author, authors, famous author, famous authors, poet, poets, boardroom, boardrooms, annoying habit, annoying habits, irritating habit, irritating habits, elitist, elitists, meeting, meetings, board, boards, board member, board members, businessmen, businessman"Sure, money may be imaginary - but at least it's got everybody imagining it."
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism, taking advantage, advantage"I'm sorry, Wilson, but here at Tastee Cookie Corp. we no longer recognize the Geneva Conventions."
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business, businessman, businessmen, meeting, meetings, board meeting, board meetings, board member, board members, worker, workers, employee, employees, corporation, corporations, company, companies, office, offices, office life, geneva convention, geneva conventions, human rights, violence, violent, management, pulley, pulleys, rope, ropes, workplace bullying, ethics, unethical"How about air-quality canaries on every flight?"
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, bogus, idea, ideas, airline, airlines, airplane, plane, planes, airplanes, aeroplanes, aeroplane, fly, flying, flight, flights, canary, coal mine, canary in the coal mine, air quality, pollution, pollute, pollutants, useless, uselessness, irony, ironic, dramatic irony"The resolution has been made and seconded that we stick our heads in the sand."
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animal, animals, talking animal, talking animals, ostrich, ostriches, bird, birds, business, businessman, businessmen, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, board member, board members, chairman, chairmen, office, offices, office life, board meeting, board meetings, meeting, meetings, motion, motions, stick your head in the sand, bury your head in the sand, have your head in the sand, ignoring, hiding, avoiding, personification, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic"But let's not dwell on the past."
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death, dead, die, died, dying, dies, dwell, dwelling, dwells, past, dwell on the past, meeting, meetings, exec, executive, executives, execs, chairman, chair, board, board member, board members, empty, empty seat, empty chair, fire, fired, fires, fear, fearing, feared, afraid, scare, scared, replace, replacement, conspicuous, conspicuous absence, absent, absence, businessmen, businessman, big business, big boss, fat cat"Listen - we just stay silent and look remote and concerned and dignified, and we keep the damn bonuses."
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism, banker, bankers, bonus, bonuses, banker bonus, banker's bonuses, media spin, spin, spin off, spin-off"This just might be the greatest period of privatization since feudalism."
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism, privatized, privatised, privatization, privatised, privatisation, feudal, feudalism"Miss Johnson will now pass out the moral blinders."
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business, businessman, businessmen, businesswoman, businesswomen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, meeting, meetings, board meeting, board meetings, board member, board members, chairman, chairmen, committee, committees, moral, morality, immoral, blinder, blinders, ethics, unethical, scandal, scandals, questionable, white collar crime, corrupt, corruption"Making money's eve more of a kick when no one else is."
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, financial crash, stock market crash, market crash, recession, depression, economic depression, economic downturn, fat cat, fat catsFor some reason, we're not appealing enough to those awful little bastards everyone hates."
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desk, desks, management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, popularity, popular, populism, populist, market research, marketing, marketting, analysis, analyst, analysts, audience, buyer, buyers, market"There's a thin line, J.B., between deniability and pig ignorant."
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big business, big boss, fat cat, capitalism, venture capitalism, taking advantage, advantage, privilege, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, board room, board member, board members, financial crash, profiteering, unethical, immoral, amoral, deniability, plausible deniability, blame, shifting the blame, account, accounts, management, upper management, manager, managers, businessman, businessmen, business man, business men"As board members, we need to speak with one voice, I'm suggesting Donald Duck."
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board member, board members, boardmember, boardmembers, boardroom, boardrooms, board, boards, vote, votes, businessmen, businessman, businesswomen, businesswoman, corporate culture, unified, teamwork, team, teams, single voice, speaking with a single voice, chairmen, chairman, chair, chairs, chair of the board"Charles has offered his personal image for us to project as our corporate image."
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, meeting, meetings, board, boards, board member, board members, corporation, corporations, company, companies, image, corporate image, personal image, project, projecting, marketing, advertising, reputation, reputations, false, fake, pretend, pretending"Do you think there's an upper class in Heaven?"
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism, upper class, heaven, irony, ironic, ironically, you're going to hell"I believe the board has successfully achieved its goal of biodiversity."
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, meeting, meetings, shareholders meeting, shareholders meetings, shareholder, shareholders, board of directors, chairman, chairmen, ceo, ceos, c.e.o, c.e.o.s, chief executive officer, chief executive officers, board member, member of the board, board members, diversity, biodiversity, biology, science, animal, animals, goal, goals, achievement"Before each of you, you will find a bitter pill and a glass of water."
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bitter pill, bitter pills, glass of water, boardroom, boardrooms, board, boards, boardmember, boardmembers, board member, board members, board-member, board-members, swallowing a bitter pill, bad news, businessmen, businessman, corporate culture, word play, wordplay, word-play, pun, puns, word game, word-game"Remember when 'The sky's the limit' was something we wanted to hear?"
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism, taking advantage, advantage"It's an amazing coincidence, isn't it, that we all served on the same board of directors?"
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religion, religious, death, after death, afterlife, underworld, hell, devil, devils, demon, demons, hades, lucifer, satan, business, businessman, businessmen, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, board member, board members, chairman, chairmen, meeting, meetings, corrupt, corruption, fraud, white-collar crime, white collar crime, scandal, scandals, unethical, ethics, immoral, suspicious, questionable, coincidence, coincidences, board of directors, sins"If we don't decide what we're worth, who will?"
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, fat cat, fat cats, profit, profits, profitable, profitability, nepotism, corrupt, corruption, financial, white collar crime, capitalism, capitalist, late stage capitalism"I thought it would be appropriate to have a band playing as we went down."
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business, businesses, company, companies, corporation, corporations, corporate, businessman, businessmen, businesswoman, businesswomen, meeting, meetings, boardroom, boardrooms, board meeting, board meetings, chairman, chairmen, executive, executives, ceo, ceos, c.e.o., c.e.o.s, chief executive officer, chief executive officers, boss, bosses, manager, managers, board member, board members, office, offices, office life, graph, graphs, chart, charts, decline, declining, sinking, sink, profits, profit, sinking ship, sinking ships, musician, musicians, music, musical instrument, musical instruments, musical accompaniment, band, bands, bankruptcy, insolvency, appropriate, cliche, cliches"Gentlemen, let's get serious!"
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business, businessman, businessmen, office, offices, office life, meeting, meetings, board meeting board meetings, board member, board members, executive, executives, exec, execs, management, manager, managers, boss, bosses, casual, relaxed, casual friday, casual fridays, style, fashion, clothes, clothing, serious, business meeting, business meetings, hypocritical, hypocrite, hypocrites"The gap between the rich and poor, … how can we increase it?"
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business, businessman, businessmen, office, offices, office life, meeting, meetings, board meeting board meetings, board member, board members, executive, executives, exec, execs, management, manager, managers, boss, bosses, income disparity, wage gap, income gap, rich, poor, wealthy, affluent, social status, social class, income inequality, increase, increases, increasing, greed, greedy