Rob Payne Quotes

Its always good to have a theme.

This is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates. Our collars may be white, but our outlooks are gray and our paycheques ar most definitely lacking in green.

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

You should try the margarita," she says.
" Are they the best in town?"
She shrugs. "I don't know. But I like them. They have two ounces of tequila in them and fuck you up big time.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.

Being really poor is frightening, and draining, but I got through it.

Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.

In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.

My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.