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Description: Murphy's Laws at Work
MURPHY'S LAWS ON WORK
- A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.
- Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
- The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
- You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
- Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will
happen to you the rest of the day.
- Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the
one you are least interested in, and say nothing about the other.
- When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking
about themselves.
- If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a
damn fool about it.
- There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the
boss asks for a ride home from the office.
- Mother said there would be days like this, but she never said there would
be so many.
- Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. This is what I'm doing wrong.
- Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."
- Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
- To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is
supposed to be doing.
- Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
- The last person that quit or was fired will be the one held responsible
for everything that goes wrong - until the next person quits or is
fired.
- There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is
always enough time to do it over.
- The more pretentious a corporate name, the smaller the organization.
(For instance, The Murphy Center for Codification of Human and
Organizational
Law, contrasted to IBM, GM, AT&T ...).
- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really
good, you will get out of it.
- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
- People are always available for work in the past tense.
- If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the
number of pens that person is carrying.
- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.
- No one gets sick on Wednesdays.
- When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by
reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
- The longer the title, the less important the job.
- Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman
arrives.
- An "acceptable" level of employment means that the government economist
to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
- Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
- All vacations and holidays create problems, except for one's own.
- Success is just a matter of luck, just ask any failure.