You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.
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Murphy's laws about Contentment, page 8
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When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question. How would the Lone Ranger handle this?.
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When you see an item in the flyer, by the time you get to the store its either sold out or the price has doubled.
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Just when you have no cash, you are in great pain and got to the bank to find the bank computers offline.
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If you have a little extra money to blow, something will break, and cost more than that little extra.
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If you don't want it, there is plenty of it; If you really need it, they're all out of it.
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The more you like a product, the more likely it will be discontinued.
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The one time you didn't make a copy of your 1040, that's the one the IRS did not receive.
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Slog all day and no-one notices, take a 5 minute breather to play Window's Solitaire and the boss silently appears behind you.
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Never ask for a raise after you have successfully completed a project.
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If you do it right the first time, you will not be asked to resolve the problem and therefore will not be in a position to ask for a raise.
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When in trouble do what you can. If that fails try what you can't. If that fails give yourself an A for effort and run like hell with pride!
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You pay peanuts and you get monkeys. In some organizations you pay doughnuts and you still get monkeys.
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Ament's First Law of Corporate Survival: when you see the shit is about to hit the fan, shut your mouth.
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The more complicated the job is the less time and useful information you will be given.
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If the salesperson says, all you have to do is... you know you're in trouble.
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When a customer says: It's perfect except... you know it will be necessary to rebuild the whole piece.
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