Levity: Learning from Corporate America

Sometimes we need to stop a minute and laugh at ourselves (and those around us). I recently read a fairly funny post on Funny Stuffers about learning from corporate America . It is titled “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Corporate America.” Here are some of my favorite tidbits from the post:

1. Indecision is the key to flexibility.
2. Sometimes too much to drink is not enough.
3. There is no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
4. The facts, though interesting, are irrelevant.
5. Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the world world.
6. Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
7. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.
8. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
9. One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
10. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
11. This is as bad as it can get, but don’t count on it.
12. By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends.
13. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
14. Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery.
15. Money can’t buy happiness. It can, however, rent it.

Some of these are rather tongue-in-cheek, but if you have been paying attention the last year or so, you know that most of them have a bit of truth in them.

Can you think of something that you have learned from corporate America?

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