# What's Your Favorite Demotivator? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113 "2000-01-26T22:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/1 "2000-01-26T22:36:00Z")
- - - Plugging for a commercial site might be against board rules, but, , - - - (w3) [despair.com](http://despair.com) sells “Dilbert” type _anti_-motivational posters. I especially like the cards that you can send to someone when they’ve screwed something up good. Pretty funny if you’re bored. A friend bought the calendar last year and it was hysterical. And you don’t have to pay to look at 'em anyway. (my fave: note the sig) - MC * * * “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others” - [despair.com](http://despair.com) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/2 "2000-01-26T22:38:00Z")
One more post before I go home!! I love that site. It’s a riot. My favorite is “Laziness”. I’m not a huge fan of those Successories things anyway so this is a perfect spin-off! ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/3 "2000-01-26T22:55:00Z")
In the real workplace, my biggest demotivator is having my boss tell me something and later I discover that he was wrong or lying. I’ve had two supervisors like that when I was working in hotels. With regards to the post, as a golfer, I love “INEPTITUDE - If you can’t learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.” I see and play with so many people who are so bad and yet they will not do anything to improve their game! I started out with the usual scores around the century mark. But I have worked on my game and I now shoot in the upper-70s to low-80s. And if this 20’ of snow will ever get out of here, I’ll work to lower those scores! * * * “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” E A Poe ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/4 "2000-01-26T23:09:00Z")
When I worked in phone support, we all wanted APATHY. That cobweb-covered phone…hehehe Since I left that office in August, the place has become, by new boss’s decree, COVERED in actual ‘motivational’ posters. They’re on every wall, plus a little desktop one on every desk. That, to me, is obscene. He might as well whip his employees like horses. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/5 "2000-01-26T23:12:00Z")
Defeat is my favorite. But they’re all great. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/6 "2000-01-26T23:13:00Z")
## I went to this site and found my new sig line…cool. Shadowfox “Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” - Procrastinator’s motto, courtesy of [Despair.com](http://Despair.com) ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/7 "2000-01-26T23:18:00Z")
## Let’s try that one again… Shadowfox “Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” - Procrastinator’s motto. [http://www.despair.com](http://www.despair.com) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/8 "2000-01-26T23:28:00Z")
I’m looking at my favorite demotivator right now. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/9 "2000-01-26T23:50:00Z")
MEDIOCRITY- It takes a lot less time and most people won’t notice the difference until its too late. Love it! * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/10 "2000-01-26T23:53:00Z")
Idiocy. Love the picture, and some things just happened at work that may it very relevant to me right now. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-demotivator/13113/11 "2000-01-27T00:50:00Z")
Wouldn’t you just know I’d make a typo in a post about idiocy?