DILBERT'S LAWS OF WORK - If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt. - Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. - It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you're going to do. - After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before. - The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get. - You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. - Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. - If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. - There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office. - Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. - Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous." - Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a happy hour. - To err is human, to forgive is not our policy. - Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he/she is supposed to be doing. - Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. - If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are REALLY good, you will get out of it. - You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk. - People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. - If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done. - At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying. - When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. - Following the rules will not get the job done. - Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. - When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would Batman handle this?" - No matter how much you do, you never do enough. - The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.