…Catbert says, "Leadership is the art of trading imaginary things in the future..." Catbert says, "For real things today." Catbert says, "If you work all weekend, you might be promoted someday, if there's ever an opening... and no one else is more qualified."
Wally says, "I'm no longer content to be useless at work." Wally says, "I decided to take up golf so I can be useless on weekends too." Dilbert says, "Are you going to take lessons?" Wally says, "You get to hit the ball more if you don't."
…" Boss says "I don't have time to answer 25 questions!" Wally says "Well then, it appears we are at a standoff." Boss says "Okay, okay! I'll work all weekend answering your stupid questions!!!" "That's great, unless you can't find the e-mail I sent." "Did you really send an e-mail?" "That's not how…
…finish my project before the end of the year." "I have 19 vacation days to use and there are 19 work days left in the year." "That leaves zero days to do 19 days worth of work." "You could work on weekends and use weekdays for vacation." "Why the @#$% would I do that?!!" "Because vacations reduce your…
"You need to work this weekend." "There's no work to do. I'm waiting for input." "That doesn't matter. Strong leaders make their people work on weekends." "Then he asked me what the clueless leaders do, as if I would know that."
