Instead of working on the speech I’ll give at my brother’s wedding this weekend (= procrastination), I’m going through the posters at despair.com and picking out my favorites. These take your typical boring corporate motivational poster words like “leadership” and “teamwork” and “ambition”… and try to knock your self-esteem out from under you.
My favorites include:
- Achievement: ROTFLOL – definitely provides new perspective on “world wonders,” doesn’t it? And also some large companies.
- Ambition: The companion to an old Chinese proverb.
- Consulting: “I’m not a consultant, I’m just a playa that… prolongs the problem real good.” (I had recently seen a shirt that said “I’m not a consultant, I’m just a playa that consults real good.”)
- Effort: uh-hurhurhur.
- Mediocrity: Honestly, how can this be such a famous tourist attraction? I’m pretty sure there is nothing 800 years old and as flagrantly poorly built in China.
