Wednesday, April 1, 2009

You know your company is about to go bankrupt, when...

When the "hold" music on the phone system is "Another one bites the dust."

All the urinals and porcelain plumbing fixtures have been replaced by six Folgers coffee cans in the men's room and two mop pails and the Sears Roebuck catalogue in the ladies room.

There is a piece of paper taped over the coffee maker with directions to the nearest Starbucks.

When the skipper says, "The story you have just seen is true; the names have been changed to protect the unemployed."
Courtesy of Sgt. Joe Friday

Sunday, March 29, 2009

More reasons keep coming in

When you catch the boss separating the 2-ply toilet paper in the bathroom to make two rolls out of one.

Courtesy of Maidyalook2

When the office manager starts using coupons to purchase office supplies.

Courtesy of Corage

When the company CEO states that your entire operation and all of its employees have been placed on "double secret probation".

Courtesy of lovelydenis4ou


The sign over the emergency exit door has been changed from "emergency exit" to "get out".

courtesy of drbodkin

When you overhear the secretary on the phone saying "good thing he doesn't know how much I hate his guts."

Friday, March 27, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

And the number one way you can tell your company is going bankrupt - when you show up for work the doors are locked and there is a realty for sale sign out in front of the building.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number two: Employees found out they were getting a pay cut by reading it in the morning newspaper.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number three: The company teleprompter was removed and put up for sale on Craig's List.

Contributed by drbokdin.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number four: The company health insurance plan has been replaced with a car-size first aid kid and enrollment in a local CPR course.

Contributed by Bandit

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number five: Instead of matching your 401K contributions you get a bag of jelly beans on your desk.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number six: The back-up generator has been removed and in its place are two dozen cages with hamsters with wires attached from the hamster's exercise wheels to a car battery.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number seven: Someone in the business office has let it slip that bank statements are now being sent from Switzerland.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number Eight: You fill up your water coolor by setting buckets outside and letting them fill with rain water.

Top Ten Ways To Tell Your Company is About To Go Bankrupt

Number Nine: Your building's security system has been replaced with a tape recording of a barking dog.