Comments on: From the Manager’s Book of Quotes for Inspiring Workplace Paranoia

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:25:29 +0000

I worked at KFC for a long time and if we didn’t have anything to do, I would get twitchy. It’s booooring just sitting around. Some people aren’t like that, I know. I would wipe down the tables three or four times each during the lunch lull because I was A) bored to death and B) not willing to listen to my coworker Judith’s boring (and often horribly insensitive) diatribes.

I kind of miss it, though. The working, I mean.

By: jezzielea

jezzielea — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:29 +0000

a) I seriously love the commenters on this website. Seriously, the comments are like the scrumptious icing on the best cake EVER.
b) George C Hubbs was a dick.
c) I love that someone actually looked up George C Hubbs’ bio & everyone now knows he didn’t know what the crap he was talking about.
Well done, you guys. Well done

By: JosiePie

JosiePie — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:41:21 +0000

Ready, REPEAT:

1) There’s no reason to keep saying the same thing over and over.

2) People don’t like hearing the same thing reworded over and over.

3) There’s no reason for those three sentences to reword the same idea.

Repetition is not something anyone enjoys.

By: Squirtle

Squirtle — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:56:19 +0000

Why do people think they can be buddies with their boss and confide in them that they don’t like their job?

Why do bosses act all butt hurt and surprised to learn that people don’t like their jobs??

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:00:12 +0000

Hostile work environment, what?

By: Who passed out the Haterade?

Who passed out the Haterade? — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:49:30 +0000

My money’s on “George C Hubbs never worked a day in his life, but that didn’t stop him from condescending to those who did.” He didn’t apply for “jobs” so much as he inherited them, and they were more stipends than they were salaries.

By: Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff

Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:45:23 +0000

George C Hubbs never worked in a call center.

By: Palomon

Palomon — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:49:39 +0000

I don’t get it. Put it in layman’s terms?

By: mutzali

mutzali — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:57:25 +0000

My job’s got a huge ass. It needs to walk more at lunch.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:38:12 +0000

Sure, they SAY that, but the last time I tried to make work interesting by wearing a tutu, army boots, and a gorilla mask, I got in trouble for violating the dress code…

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:01:40 +0000

“Your job is only as big as you are.” Perhaps this quote should be used by all of the folks critical of workplace candy/cookies/cake/donuts.

By: Dr. Knight

Dr. Knight — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:00:36 +0000

I found another quotation from friend Hubbs.

Share this with the dogmatic, restroom-PA-posting, grump of a boss in Madison:

“Much as I dislike hypocrisy and much as I advocate the theory of being yourself, I submit it is far better to feign good nature than to be a natural grouch. This is on the theory that the chap who acts as though he were agreeable may some day get the habit!”

~ George C. Hubbs

By: infant tyrone

infant tyrone — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:59:49 +0000

Not only for the automotive tie-in, but maybe a Hubbs seminar reading list should also include The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:16:50 +0000

This has given me a real hankering to read some Sinclair Lewis.