# Signs I do have up in my office **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125 "2004-10-14T00:31:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/1 "2004-10-14T00:31:28Z")
Inspired by this thread ([Signs you’d like to post in your office](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280582)), I just wanted to share some of the inspirational pictures I put up in my office. Remember, it’s a medical office in the center of a maximum-security prison. These are seen by patients (inmates) and staff alike. The basic decor is _not_ really designed to please the eye! The first 3 are from [despair.com](http://www.despair.com/demotivators/indem.html). 1. [Ambition](http://www.despair.com/ambition.html). For both my staff and my patients. 2. [Get to Work](http://www.despair.com/demotivators/gettowork.html). For my staff. 3. [Mistakes](http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html). Which I do keep hidden from view, as it could be a bit overwhelming for some of my patients. 4. [Nekobasu, or catbus](http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~iwasa503/nekobasu1.jpg). Oh, also a “Get Fuzzy” Calendar. So, would you want _me_ as your doctor, given my office decor? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/2 "2004-10-14T00:51:47Z")
Those are awesome! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/3 "2004-10-14T00:54:56Z")
Well, I don’t have any signs, _per se_, as I’m not really a signs kind of gal. I do have a postcard on my bulletin board that reads “The trailer park called. They want their trash back.” I used to have a plaque of sorts that read “This had better be good…” I lost it when I moved my office, which was just as well as I didn’t really like it all that much. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/4 "2004-10-14T01:01:21Z")
I used to have one which said something like “It may look like I’m sitting here doing nothing, but I’m actually so efficient that I’ve completed all my work” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/5 "2004-10-14T01:04:33Z")
**QtheM** , I _wish_ the endless array of doctors I’ve been subjected to lately had posted signs like the ones you have. At least there would have been some evidence that the bloodsucking butchers were sufficiently human to have a sense of humor! On a barely related note, when working for a company I’m working for is clearly coughing up blood and not long for this world, I have been known to post a framed McDonald’s application with a prominent label “In Case of Emergency, Break Glass.” ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/6 "2004-10-14T01:07:52Z")
I don’t have any, but at a company I used to work for one of the women in Accounts Payable had a sign that said “Shit List” and had ten numbered spaces below it. My name was inscribed in space number one. There were no other names on the list. In fact I enjoyed (what I thought to be) an amiable relationship with this woman - I think her canonization of me had to do with my practice of walking critical invoices through Accounting. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/7 "2004-10-14T02:11:05Z")
Over the summer, I visited an office that had pretty much every [despair.com](http://despair.com) poster up on their walls. They also had a big drawing of Trogdor on their whiteboard. I think that would be a pretty cool place to work. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/8 "2004-10-14T02:13:48Z")
**QtM** , that last picture scared the ever living f\*ck out of me! What the Hell is that? Why would you put such a fear inducing poster on your wall? Is it there so the inmates get scared straight? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/9 "2004-10-14T02:19:31Z")
One of my all-time favorites was: I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking too good, either. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/10 "2004-10-14T02:22:09Z")
I have a sign–well, really just a laser printout–taped to my desk that says: > [@](#): > > Answers…$1.00 > Long Answers…$5.00 > Answers Requiring Thought…$10.00 > Correct Answers…$50.00 > Dumb Looks…Free It doesn’t work. People still ask me questions and don’t pay for them. (Cow-orkers, not customers. Customers can’t even see the sign, because I don’t have a video-phone 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/11 "2004-10-14T02:31:41Z")
I need to find a good image to go with this: There is no patch for human stupidity ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/12 "2004-10-14T02:32:16Z")
The last time I had an office, a sign over the door said: **Speed Quality Price** Pick any two. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/13 "2004-10-14T02:33:49Z")
Now, I have [this one](http://www.despair.com/demotivators/cluelessness.html) in the back of my classroom. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/14 "2004-10-14T02:39:09Z")
I have this 8 1/2" x 11" sign taped to the front of my letter trays on my desk: “I’m not sleeping - I’m reveling in my success” This is only really funny because I’m notorious for power-napping through my 15 minute break, right there on my desk. Break sign goes up - head goes down - reveling commences! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/15 "2004-10-14T02:56:29Z")
I used to have one up on my wall. It featured a bunch of penguins all lined up pointing the same way. “Teamwork: A bunch of people doing what I say.” My staff gave it to me for my birthday once. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/16 "2004-10-14T02:58:50Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > **QtM** , that last picture scared the ever living f\*ck out of me! What the Hell is that? Why would you put such a fear inducing poster on your wall? Is it there so the inmates get scared straight? Are you kidding? They _love_ Nekobasu! ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/17 "2004-10-14T03:41:38Z")
I have this ‘price list’ on the wall in my home office (I do editing): Hourly Rates Regular - $25 If you wait - $35 If you watch - $50 If you laugh - $75 If you help - $100 ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/18 "2004-10-14T03:42:28Z")
“Swallow a frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you.” “Pride, Teamwork, Effort: There will be none of that bullshit around here.” “You can’t always get what you want.” and a handwritten note from myself – I have no idea when I wrote it or what I wrote it about, I just found it in my desk drawer: “I will never, ever get myself in this mess again.” Heh. Right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/19 "2004-10-14T04:08:20Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > I used to have one which said something like “It may look like I’m sitting here doing nothing, but I’m actually so efficient that I’ve completed all my work” What I have is: “If I don’t look busy, it’s because I got it right the first time.” 🙂 I also have: [ul] [li]“Documenting software is like changing a tire on a moving car.”[/li][li]“Sexual harrassment will not be reported. It will, however, be graded.”[/li][li]“Patience my ass: I’m gonna kill something”[/li][/ul] I used to have another documentation one, something about requirements and describing the smile on a black cat in a dark room (or something…there was definitely a cat and a room), but I don’t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125/20 "2004-10-14T04:42:33Z")
I have a card that says: “I’ll try to be nicer, if you’ll try to be smarter.” A happy bunny magnet that says: “It’s all about me. Deal with it” Tons of computer related cartoons. A label on my monitor that says: “The early worm gets eaten by the bird.” I made that after I read it on the SDMB (I work nights, so I thought it was appropriate) That’s all the best ones. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-i-do-have-up-in-my-office/269125.md?page=2)