The Laws of Work
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  1. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
  2. Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
  3. It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you're going to do.
  4. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
  5. The more garbage you put up with, the more garbage you are going to get.
  6. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
  7. When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
  8. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
  9. Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back.
  10. Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."
  11. Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
  12. To err is human, to forgive is not our policy.
  13. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he/she is supposed to be doing.
  14. Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
  15. If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
  16. You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
  17. People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
  18. If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
  19. At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
  20. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
  21. Following the rules will not get the job done.
  22. Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.
  23. No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
  24. The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
  25. "An organisation is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs, at different levels, some climbing up, and some coming down. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
  26. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but arseholes."

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