Tongue Planted in Cheek: You, Too, Can Be Mediocre!

Copyright © 2004 by Don Blohowiak
Don@LeadWell.com www.LeadWell.com

It's straight out of the Dilbert school of workplace mockery and cynicism. Only prettier.

 Despair, Inc. creates and markets a full range of sassy posters, calendars, note cards and even a sardonic book and DVD poking fun at silly workplace "motivation" products.

The self-proclaimed vision on which Despair, Inc. was founded:

A company that would create dissatisfied customers in the process of exploiting demoralized employees while selling overpriced and ineffective products to remediate the problems caused by the very process itself. A company that would become the bold embodiment of every shortcoming rife within corporate America.

Don't you just love truth in advertising!

The bittersweet punsters at Despair have pins for every pompous corporate balloon: Meetings, Adversity, Motivation, Change, Nepotism, Goals, Leadership, Achievement, Incompetence, Discovery, Teamwork … Even, [gulp] Consulting. And on and on and on!

Even if your own little workspace doesn't need anymore useless decor, remember 'tis the season for buying useless gifts for workplace colleagues.

Do you dare show 'em how you really feel?

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