- "[The project] was top priority, but then something came along that was more important, so it became low priority." - "The answer to your question is that I cannot answer your question."Frontiernet has compiled a similar list of "Dilbertisms" that puts my overheard quotes to shame:
- "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." - "One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said 'If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!'"Click here to read the rest, unless you're already corporate, in which case...just go to your next meeting.
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The business person says, "Your project would be a top priority, but we've already got a project that's top priority."
Full disclosure, I work for a company that provides software so that business people can identify projects that used to be high-priority, but now should be low-priority.