Friday, August 17, 2007

What I Learned about Business from the Movies and Television

Secretaries in New York City have spacious apartments in nice neighborhoods.

If the murder suspect is either the chief executive officer or a secretary, then you can bet that the CEO will be going to the slammer.

Every workplace has an amiable computer geek who can't wait to abandon projects in order to help out the non-geeks.

Beautiful female employees have a dumpy girlfriend who has access to the boss's desk.


Harassers and bigots are tolerated or encouraged.

Anyone with an Ivy League degree has criminal tendencies unless, of course, the person is a professor.

Managers can leave the workplace for days at a time and their work is mysteriously done by others.

Members of top management ride around in limos. All others use cabs.

No one keeps receipts and most executives and managers have huge expense accounts.

All large businesses are hiding a massive conspiracy and if the CEO is nice, it is a really evil one.

The office staff is always smarter than upper management.

The unrecognized genius in the mailroom or computer lab will eventually be rewarded.

Executives have long and leisurely lunches at private clubs and then go to swanky parties at night.

People are hired and promoted at the speed of light with little or no regard for personnel procedures.

Environmentalists and community activists are inherently noble.


Executives always have clean desks.

Corporations routinely make obscene profits from very little work.

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