I have this on my office wall. I consider it to be truth in advertising.

Some of my employees have various news articles and cartoons posted on their office doors. I used to put up all law-related cartoons. Now that I'm the boss, I just go with one that suits me.

A young couple are in a hospital, wife in bed holding their newborn baby. A doctor is talking to them. The doctor says "Although the tests indicate your baby is quite healthy, our preliminary tests indicate that the child...was born to rock."

And that's all that's going on my office door.

I also have it framed and hanging in my office. I put it out of the way to prevent the 'work place violence nazis' from seeing it unless they walk around behind my desk.

Our previous manager, a woman, had a large copy of the sinking ship captioned:

Mistakes

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

She was pretty tough, it was funny to hear here advise some whinny men to "Butch up a little."

Our halls are covered with all the posters in the their calendars.

We have a poster in the hall that says:

Espionage Does Pay . . .

Then it has photos of 11 guys and what they are paying in their various prison sentences:

24 years, life, life, etc....

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http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html 

My favorite:

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html 

ScottHar

This is a tough bill to fill but sounds right. John

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... we are in charge of our Attitude." - Chuck Swindoll

It is a poster about work, not a philosophy for life.

Too many employers think they can get more out of employees with motivational posters, slogans and seminars. They expect loyalty but want to treat employees as interchangeable cogs and display no leadership. These posters are a response.

It's all business, I work very hard because I am paid to do a job and I have a very high work ethic. (It's a curse actually. (:-)

A look around despair.com might help you understand.

I have this exact Demotivators on my office wall.

I also have "arrogence" and "goals" floating around somewhere.

"Fear" will be my next acquisition.

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