Working in law and business, one is confronted in magazines, newsletters and websites by supposedly helpful but ultimately meaningless graphics like this one:
What does the image say to you? I would think the older balding guy is begging for his job after the demographically correct downsizing team has reviewed the sad facts on the chart with him.
Jim (standing): How do you explain the sales crash in the first quarter, Ted?
Ted (sweating): But...but...but...Look, how well we did in the second and third quarters...
Jim: Don't change the topic, Ted.
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Dan - July 7, 2003 8:55 pm
Jim: Where did everybody go?
Ted: Arby's - roast beef sale.
J - July 7, 2003 11:37 pm
Jim: What did they buy?
Ted: Pppppeeesppppsssiiiii
Alan - July 8, 2003 10:17 am
I would have thought the images would have been more along the Dilbert/Drew Carey line but TV ads also provide us with the few idioms for describing our workplace. No wonder management consultants have both such a free hand and few real results.
<blockquote>Jim: (recoiling slightly) whats that smell?
Ted: (defensive) Old Spice...whats wrong with a little aftershave?
Shirley: (daydreaming) <i>sailboats...warm day...</i></blockquote>