{"quotes":[{"text":"Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.","author":"Abhishek Ratna","tags":["business","business-advice","business-culture","business-management-training","career","formal","formality","game-face","job","office","office-politics","office-worker","success"],"id":59084,"author_id":"Abhishek+Ratna"},{"text":"Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":114365,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":126366,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":142596,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere with him – a handbook of the most widely contravened banking rules. He works humourlessly (on the surface of it) in a private, perfectly square office on the third floor of a restored grain exchange midway along the Eastern flank of Květniv’s busy, modern central plaza. Behind his oblong slate desk and black leather swivel chair is an intimidating, three-storey wall made almost entirely of bevelled, glare-reducing grey glass in art-deco style; one hundred and thirty six rectangles of gleam stacked together in a dangerously heavy collage.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":146158,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Shame comes in different doses.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":146873,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["advancement","career","career-strategy","climbing-the-corporate-ladder","getting-ahead","job","job-promotion","management","managing-people","office-politics"],"id":190953,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":262665,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":263685,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","tags-subversive","twisted"],"id":266907,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}