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Title: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Nick on August 24, 2007, 11:16:19 AM
An august organ is open on my desk. My eye was drawn to a job advert. The corporate strap lline is:

Improving People's Lives (gap)












in Salford

BOMB IT THEN!
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Misunderstood on August 24, 2007, 01:37:25 PM
An august organ is open on my desk. My eye was drawn to a job advert. The corporate strap lline is:

Improving People's Lives (gap)


in Salford

BOMB IT THEN!

I HATE idiotic mission statements.   We fought for two weeks to come up with "Your lives are our future"   ::)

In my view, it makes us look like whimsical airheads. 
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Snoopy on August 24, 2007, 01:47:26 PM
An august organ is open on my desk. My eye was drawn to a job advert. The corporate strap lline is:

Improving People's Lives (gap)


in Salford

BOMB IT THEN!

I HATE idiotic mission statements.   We fought for two weeks to come up with "Your lives are our future"   ::)

In my view, it makes us look like whimsical airheads. 

Firmly believing that a "Mission Statement" should encapsulate the purpose of the business I once suggested that the company I was working for should adopt ~ "Seeking to Maximise our Profits at your Expense".
For some reason the CEO decided I wasn't entering into the team spirit he wanted at that meeting.  noooo:
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Nick on August 24, 2007, 03:41:24 PM
He wasn't "up to speed" Angry9:
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Snoopy on August 24, 2007, 04:32:34 PM
He wasn't "up to speed" Angry9:

Couldn't "square the circle"  tunble:
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Nick on August 24, 2007, 04:35:38 PM
Push the envelope?
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on August 25, 2007, 07:15:55 AM
Think outside the box
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Snoopy on August 25, 2007, 07:25:18 AM
Run it up a flag pole and see who salutes it.
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on August 25, 2007, 07:32:24 AM
Blue sky thinking
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Snoopy on August 25, 2007, 07:37:50 AM
Does anyone have issues with that?  Banghead
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on August 25, 2007, 07:41:36 AM
  lol:Let's hit the ground running.
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: Snoopy on August 25, 2007, 07:44:14 AM
Mrs S has a member of management who has stopped "Thinking outside the box" and now says "Now we are beyond the box" ................ She says she may kill him this term.
Title: Re: Idiot Mission Statements
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on August 25, 2007, 07:52:51 AM
 surrender: