Overheard at the Office, Part 1

"One of our corporate goals needs to be to stay in business."

"Inspire Excellence. Nobody says inspire mediocrity "

"Just keep telling yourself: I never really cared about the little things."

"All you would have to do is not much to make it awesome."

"The only problem is we can't hit and we can't catch."

"A blurry image is better than total darkness."

"It doesn't matter what you do, someone will get mad."

"He's looking for his next tar pit to get into."

"They changed their brains around." (they changed their minds)

"That's the beauty of the Arabic system. You can always add one more number." (in reference to creating new project numbers)

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

"Different clients are different."

"When you do something for nothing, they don't get much."

"It's a huge bubble moving through a snake."

"There's nobody with nothing to do."

"I can't speak from personal experience, but I can tell you that childbirth is painful. It's not like having your finger cut off."

"The most logical thing to do is to bring it to an illogical point."

"I can't answer your question right now, I'm busy getting behind on these plans."

"Whatever happens, that's what usually happens."

"The later you wait, the less your two cents is worth."

"Don't make me change this again."

"I'm so overwhelmed, I can't handle anymore surprises."

"Don't eat anything bigger than your head."

"I could do it, but I don't know what to do."

"I'll know as soon as I find out."

"Had they not screwed up, they still would have done it wrong."

"You'd be proud of me, Mom. I saved all my bags."

"I have things to do...I have to get this thing done."

"He says that's the way it is but that's not the way it used to be."

"If everyone would follow the rules, we wouldn't have any cheaters."

"You think you know you have your mind made up but you don't know that you really don't."

"That guy is so mean that anything you throw at him would change course."

"It's like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall."

"It's when I don't know what I'm going to do, that's when I get worried."

"That's going to be tough if you want it to be right."

"I'll explain it to you guys as soon as I figure it out."

"Yeah, yeah, that will work....Oh God, you're not going to do that are you?"

"The simplest thing for me to do at this point is...I don't know what the simplest thing to do is."

"If I were to say, 'thanks', would you say, 'don't dimension it' ? "

"When I don't remember my last thought, that's when I know I've passed out."

"Someday tell me what it was I wanted to know."

"Uh-oh! Our project is due today."

"That's one of the little things that it doesn't take much of."

"I don't think I like that, I know that."

"I'd be more articulate but I'm a little confused myself."

"If you ever find out what I'm supposed to tell you, let me know so I can tell you."

"He's like a fruit basket turned over and ready to go."

"I know that sacred cow. It bellows every time I kick it."

"That's so old I don't think it's new anymore."

"I'd toot my own horn but I don't know the tune."

"The floor plan looks too big for those elevations to be so small."

"Flatness is deceiving."

"I procrastinated for a long time."

"It's like trying to insert the bones back into a boneless chicken."

"We want you to get started, but not right now."

"Those guys are as flaky as a box of Special-K."

" Nobody is TBA's middle name."

"Mums the word but the cat is out of the bag."

"She can't help it. She's trying to grow big hair quick."