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In the engineering mens room, we have a remnant of a bygone lead engineer.  The computer printed sign reads, "Today is the most important day of the entire project.  Make it count."  During his tenure, there were many copies of this missive hanging about the engineering department.  After a few months, somebody changed all the signs but one so that each sign contained all the words but babelized e.g. Today the entire project is of the most important day.  It may count.  OK -- I fugded a little as I can't recall the many cute rephrasings.

Jesus is THE life,
Leonard

RE: Today

When I went to work for GE in the early '70's, GE had a slogan for their service and service engineering division that read "no one knows GE like GE people."

My first day in my first training class all the new service engineers were met by a poster cobbled together by the classroom instructor using the scissors and paste method that stated, "no one likes GE people."

What an initial impression.

rmw

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A previous boss had the following observation, complete with a picture of the subject:

"In this company, we are all in the same boat. The Titanic."

What the senior managers thought is unknown!

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Start each new day with a smile.

Get it over with.

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metman;
Having worked for an electric utility for 2/3rds of my current career, and now working for an independent power producer (IPP) there were many goofy slogans used by the utility - one that caught my attention was Vision For Quality or VQ that was generated by the corporate office. I remember one of the posters at a Power Plant stated it as Vision For Quality, Program of the month. I was told that sign came down in a hurry!

By the way, good to see your post!

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I always liked the bumper sticker where a clever Nuc modified "Go NAVY" to "Go AWAY".  Took two stickers to make the "W", but you couldn't tell.  It was on his Pinto for almost a year before an SP at the front gate got huffy.

David

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Years ago, Wisconsin's tourism promoters gave away thousands of "Escape to Wisconsin" bumper stickers.  Most of these were recut by folks into either "Escape Wisconsin" or "Wisconsin Escapee".

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The tagline for our company is "Innovation in Mobility".  The problem is everytime I try to to "innovate" I get pounded with, "Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel, we already have a system that does this.  Go investigate how we've always done it and copy it."  Steam rises from my ears when this happens.  So I have my marque screen saver scrolling across my  monitor, "Stagnation in Mobility".

No one has complained about it... yet.

Ray Reynolds
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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Having long ago abandoned GM products when they foisted the converted 5.7L diesel and the 400 auto trans off on me, I want to take the "like a rock" sticker that can be seen in the rear window of their pick up truck products, and do a little "cutting and pasting" and make it read, "drives like a rock".  I think it would be appropriate.

rmw

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Never Better!

Better Never!  


"The Show Me State"

Ok, now show me another state!


The Land of Ahhhssss!  

Hmmm....don't think they finished that one!   

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I always get a bit vexed when I see one of those motivational prints about Success or Adversity or some such.  I happened upon despair.com as the cure for corporate pablum.  For example, "Mediocrity--It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it is too late."  If you are a wise-apple like me, you'll love this site.


Enjoy.

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TheTick;
You got a star for this one. I couldn't stop laughing....

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Our company had a really bright one once - "We think, we're different".  Didn't take long for the comma to disappear!

Bung
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