What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[tjkubota93]

That’s a good saying, but it doesn’t match my personal experience. In one of my most frustrating years of work, my employer made a really stupid decision and wasted at least half a million dollars. I argued against it vehemently, but the other team members (with more authority than me) seemed impervious to logic.

During my next review, my boss brought up that situation, and by this time it was clear that I had been right. But he didn’t bring it up to tell me how smart I am. His point was that I argued my position for too long. I should have just presented my view, and then let the higher ups do their thing.

After that, I had a much more mundane attitude towards work. I showed up and did my job, but I really didn’t care about the overall business. I seemed to get along better that way.

Sounds like I need a labotamy. The place I work is a perfect example of this. Daily.

 

[dragoneggs]

Sounds like I need a labotamy. The place I work is a perfect example of this. Daily.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotamy"

 

[Wagtail]

Goes with

Comes a time in every project you must shot the engineer and ship the machine.

[Yet another true Navy story:] As a Petty Officer (E7/8 for our US American friends) I was working in Canberra at Navy Safety when I was assigned to come up with a poster on dehydration = the colour of your urine as a chart. This was around '04 and nothing was available. So I did some research and came up with a chart (with descriptions that sailors would relate to, ie: if it's the colour of a lager beer, you're good. etc...) I jokingly called it "The Piddle Poster Project".

I needed to get a doctor to 'sign off' on the colours and the Navy Medical 'command' was the next floor up from me. The first doctor I consulted with (a Commander [Medical]) said that it looked fine but that she needed to run it past her boss (a Captain [Medical])... and so it went on up the chain "Looks good, a little tweak, but my boss needs to see it". Finally it reached the top bloke, a RADM [Dental] = when he wanted to add a little tweak to it I simply took the original draft back to the first doctor, told her that I was running with it.

And did. Published on the NAVSAFE webpage and the posters were produced & distributed.

Then the Army asked if they could use the chart. Then the Air Force. I started getting calls from the UK and the US military asking if they could use the chart...

My Piddle Poster has since gone world wide.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

[Yet another true Navy story:] As a Petty Officer (E7/8 for our US American friends) I was working in Canberra at Navy Safety when I was assigned to come up with a poster on dehydration = the colour of your urine as a chart. This was around '04 and nothing was available. So I did some research and came up with a chart (with descriptions that sailors would relate to, ie: if it's the colour of a lager beer, you're good. etc...) I jokingly called it "The Piddle Poster Project".

I needed to get a doctor to 'sign off' on the colours and the Navy Medical 'command' was the next floor up from me. The first doctor I consulted with (a Commander [Medical]) said that it looked fine but that she needed to run it past her boss (a Captain [Medical])... and so it went on up the chain "Looks good, a little tweak, but my boss needs to see it". Finally it reached the top bloke, a RADM [Dental] = when he wanted to add a little tweak to it I simply took the original draft back to the first doctor, told her that I was running with it.

And did. Published on the NAVSAFE webpage and the posters were produced & distributed.

Then the Army asked if they could use the chart. Then the Air Force. I started getting calls from the UK and the US military asking if they could use the chart...

My Piddle Poster has since gone world wide.

Good on you, Wagtail! Please accept my congratulations and admiration!

 

[lilranch2001]

:thumbsup:
:drink:

 

[Howling]

I'm saying that this was the case for you, but the realization came to me one day when the boss did something really stupid, that sometimes the boss will do something really stupid, when he knows that you know it is stupid, just to show you he is the boss and it's his decision, stupid or not.

The beatings will continue until moral improves.

 

[tjkubota93]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotamy"

I'm heading that way. Gotta make it through my 72nd hour this week at work. Then there will be 12 in front of me.

 

[Vaquero]

"If you don't like the weather, wait a little while "

 

[tallyho8]

Being the youngest in a poor family means you are the last one to use the teabag.

 

[Doofy]

Being the youngest in a poor family means you are the last one to use the teabag.

...and when the holey socks finally get to you, all that is left are the holes.