"It's just us today. Campbell called in ethical."
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called in sick, sick, calling in sick, sickie, pulling a sickie, conscience, grow a conscience, grew a conscience, no conscience, growing a conscience, ethics, ethical, ethical business, lack of ethics, no ethics, meeting, meetings, business meetings, board meetings, board meeting, exec, execs, executives, executive, banker, bankers, corporate greed, corporate, corporations'The Final Merger'
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merger, mergers, corporation, corporations, corporate, mega corporation, megacorporations, behemoth, behemoths, merge, merges, merging, takeover, takeovers, worldwide, international, international corporation, globalism, free trade, free trader, free traders, movie studio, movie studios, film studio, film studios, hollywood"The trick, as I see it, is to insulate yourself with layers of deadwood."
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business practice, businessmen, big business, deadwood, hierarchy, hierarchies, businessman, white collar crime, trick, tricks, trickery, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, dishonest, unethical, ethical business, hiring, firing, personnel, human resources, human resource, hr, h.r., corporate, corporations, job security, office drone, office drones, layer, layers"The starred items are hot and spicy."
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board, boardroom, board room, boards, boardrooms, boards, exec, execs, executive, executives, business, businesses, businessmen, businessman, business men, business man, menu, menus, food, foods, spice, spicy, chilli, chillis, hot chilli, hot and spicy, minutes, minuted, minute, paper, papers, meeting, meetings, meeting room, office, offices, corporate, corporations"First, we'll look for repressed memories of malpractice suits."
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business, businesses, businessmen, business men, business man, businessman, psychologist, psychology, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, informer, inform, informant, trick, tricked, malpractice, malpractices, investigate, investigation, interrogate, interrogation, therapy, therapist, therapists, corporate, corporation, management, big business, manager, managers"The entrance to my cubicle is three feet away. Please respect my partition."
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, packed, busy, crowd, crowded, office ecology, office politics, social, social politics, modern life, modern world, your business, none of your business, working life, working world, partition, partitions, fence, fences"There's a Mr. Egg McMuffin here who says we've been using his name without permission."
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breakfast, breakfast sandwich, egg sandwich, breakfast sandwiches, egg sandwiches, sandwich, sandwiches, business, businesses, executive, executives, market, marketing, dining, diner, restaurant, restaurants, food, foods, fast food, fast food chain, chain restaurant, chain restaurants, laws, law, law and order, legal, exploit, exploitative, permission, permissions, reception, receptionist, receptionists, office, offices, corporate, corporation, corporations, sue, sued, suing, lawyer, lawyers, fake name"Please have a seat. Mr. Thorndyke will be back shortly."
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spaced out, spaced, distract, distracted, distraction, distractions, miles away, zoned out, zone out, daydream, daydreaming, brain dead, braindead, exec, executive, executives, meeting, meetings, business, big business, boss, businessman, businessmen, office, offices, stress, stressed, concentrate, concentration, first impressions, present, presence, physical, mental, not quite there, tune out, paying attention, attention, pay attention, greetings, greeting, workaholic, work life balance, breakdown, stressed, modern life, working life, corporate, word play, play on words, word, words"They just made a little money the old-fashioned way, Ben–they stole it."
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judge, judges, judged, judicial, judiciary, jury, juror, jurors, jury duty, law, lawyer, lawyers, legal, legality, legalism, alibi, excuse, excuses, businessman, businessmen, corporate, corporation, corporations, private individual, rich people, rich, corporate crime, conspiracy, capitalism, capitalist, theft, money laundering, market manipulation, manipulation, papers, paper, newspaper, father, fathers, son, sons, kid, kids"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"We're looking for people to fire."
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honest, honesty, honesty is the best policy, hire, hired, hiring, hires, personnel, hr, h r, h.r., human resources, business, big business, businessman, businessmen, business man, business men, exec, execs, executive, manager, management, corporate, corporation, corporations, employment, employed, fire, fired, firing, office worker, office drone, office drones, excuse, excuses, interview, interviews, interview skills, capitalism, late stage capitalism, sardonic, sarcastic"Oh, can't complain, but I do."
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office, offices, office life, work, work life, worker, workers, business, businessmen, businessman, employee, employees, executive, executives, manager, managers, corporate, professional, attitude, attitudes, complaint, complaints, complain, complainer, complainers, whine, whiner, whiners, whining, can't complain, morale, job, jobs, career, careers, optimist, optimism, pessimist, pessimism"I don't like to pull rank, but I'm the one with two papers."
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pull rank, pulling rank, paper, papers, paperwork, excuse, excuses, businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, office ecology, office politics, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, responsibility, management, manager, managers"Washington, New York; New York, Boston; Boston, Washington. How was your day?"
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business, businesses, businessman, businessmen, businesspeople, businessperson, businesswoman, businesswomen, travel, travelling, corporate culture, corporate, travels, brag, bragging, insincere, work, working, jet, jetting, jet setting, fly, flying, flies, bragged, brags, boast, boasting, boasts, transport"Am I talent or product?"
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stepford wives, old fashioned, family, family values, families, dinner, over dinner, business, market, markets, marketing, marketed, parents, parenting, parental, product, products, businesses, businessmen, dad, dads, father, fatherhood, talent, talented, word play, play on words, cliche, kids say the darndest things, cliches, cliché, clichésjargon, jargons, work talk, home life, work life, corporate, corporations, influence, influential, influencing, raising kids, kid, kids, child, children"I'll keep thinking inside the box as long as they let me smoke in the box."
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ideas, work, corporate, business, thinking, smoking, non-smoking, thinking outside the box, creativity, smoker, smokers, smoke, smokes, creative thinker, creative thinkers, creative thinking, creativeness, office cubicle, office cubicles, ideas man, ideas men, office worker, office workers, boxed in, stifling, innovator, innovators, innovation, suppression"Would you like to hear about our retirement plan?"
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, interview, interviews, interview skills, employment, employ, employed, unemployed, salary, pay cut, cut, cuts, budget cut, budget cuts, undervalued, undersold, undersell, financial crash, negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, contract, contract dispute, contracts, benefit, benefits, cryo, cryofreeze, retirement, retirement plan, retirement plans, human resources"Of all the Fortune 500, we're probably the most tongue-in-cheek."
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office, offices, business, businesses, businessman, businessmen, executive, executives, list, lists, ranking, rankings, rank, ranked, corporate, corporation, corporations, tongue-in-cheek, tongue in cheek, insincere, ironic, idiom, idioms, sarcasm, sarcastic"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."
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writer, writers, novel, novella, novels, novel writing, poem, poet, poetry, poets, poetic, literature, literary, word play, play on words, ironic, irony, author, authors, authored, book, books, book lover, writing, should be writing, you should be writing, manuscript, artistic, artist, artists, art, arts, culture, cultured, writer's block, bookworm, book worm, bookworms, book worm, book, books, novel, novels, library, librarians, librarian, book lover, book lovers, literature, literary, lit, lit major, read, reading, avid reader, readers, reader, novel, novels, novelist, benefit, benefits, medical, dental, insurance, insured, severance, free, freebies, bonus, bonuses, dental, medical, new job, new career, wait a second, personnel, human resources, hr, laureate, poet laureate, corporate, corporations, businessmen"There's no need for alarm—the staff will be reduced, but only by attrition."
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, employee, employees, worker, workers, firing, laid off, lay off, laying off, unemployment, termination, downsizing, attrition, attack, pressure, alarm, money, drowning, sinking, staff, cut backs, reductions, reduced, company, companies, corporation, corporations, corporate"I like it. It's dumb without trying to be clever."
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business executive, business executives, business manager, business managers, executive, executives, manager, managers, meeting, meetings, business meetings, business meeting, board meeting, board meetings, advertising, advertisers, plan, plans, mock-up, mock up, mock-ups, mock ups, mockup, mockups, incompetence, incompetent, buzzword, buzzwords, corporate, corporation, corporations, corporate buzzword, corporate buzzwords, jargon, corporate jargon, modern life, modern times, modern attitudes, dumb, dumbness"'Meetingpalooza' sounded better in the brochure."
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lollapalooza, board, boards, board meeting, board room, director, directors, board of governors, governing, govern, governs, meeting, meetings, business meeting, corporate, corporation, corporations, office life, offices, office meeting, executive, exec, execs, executive meeting, working, worker, working life, office drone, office drones, conference, conferences, bored, boring, bores, bore, modern world, modern life, waste, wasting, wasting time, waste of time"Don't worry we'll medicate you through the probationary period."
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human, resources, human resources, hr, h r, h.r., employ, employed, employer, employee, employs, recruit, recruited, recruitment, recruiting, pill, pills, medical, medicine, medicines, pill bottle, pill bottles, tablet, tablets, prescription, prescribe, prescribes, prescribing, corporate, corporation, depressed, depression, depressing, depresses, critic, critical, critique, social critique, big business, capitalism, capitalist, capitalism, sacrifice, sacrifices, workplace, working, work, workplaces, worker, abuse of power, power