Frank’s boss finds advantages of his newly acquired corporate stilts
Posted: December 9, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, corporate ladder, corporate stilts, fun, humor, humour, outside the box, work 5 Comments
Many thanks to GD, long time friend of Just Outside the Box, for coming up with this cartoon after commenting on the last episode of Frank and his boss.
The safety committee visit Frank’s floor
Posted: November 24, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, corporate ladder, funny, glass ceiling, humor, humour, outside the box, work Leave a comment
New corporate climber joins Frank’s office
Posted: November 18, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, corporate ladder, funny, humor, humour, outside the box, work 2 Comments
Ever been caught out making incorrect assumptions before?
How emails develop a life of their own
Posted: November 11, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, email, funny, humor, humour, outside the box, work 12 Comments
Because I can (and possibly because I am an engineer and like to play with numbers), I did a quick calculation to work out how full Frank’s inbox would get after the scenario above played its course.
After the fifth iteration (starting when Frank’s initial colleague on forwards the email), Frank has 32 emails in his inbox, and we’ve involved 63 of our (now very close) work colleagues in this discussion.
If the iterations continue overnight to our final cartoon cell,
- After 10 iterations, Frank has 512 emails
- After 15, he has has 8,192 emails
- After 20, he has a whopping 524,288 emails
Makes you think twice about hitting ‘Reply all’, eh?
Next time, pick up the phone instead.
Peace and quiet for Frank
Posted: November 3, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, funny, humor, humour, outside the box, overhead cuts, work Leave a comment
The Board Report
Posted: October 20, 2014 Filed under: Science | Tags: board, cartoon, comic, homor, humour, office, outside the box, work 4 Comments
I’m sure Dilbert has already done something like this, but didn’t have the time to trawl through all his cartoons (as much fun as that would be).
What happens when you rotate the corporate ladder by 90 degrees?
Posted: October 6, 2014 Filed under: That's life | Tags: cartoon, comic, corporate ladder, funny, humor, humour, jungle gym, monkey bars, outside the box, work 6 Comments
And I was rather surprised to see that there were more similarities between the corporate ladder and monkey bars.
The inventor, Sebastian Hinton, patented the first set of monkey bars in 1920.  In his patent application (Ref: US1471465 A) he explained his inspiration and logic for creating this piece of equipment.
‘As exercise for children, climbing has in it conspicuous-features of advantage. It is an exercise wherein all the muscles of the whole body are used. Climbing is the natural method of locomotion which the evolutionary predecessors of the human race were designed to practice, and is therefore almost ideally suited for children… Â
Again and importantly, the monkey instinct strong in all human beings and perhaps more clearly displayed in children, makes climbing a sport to which children by a psychology about the same as that of a kitten at play with a ball, which of course is practice for hunting.’
And now for a bit of fun, let’s change the word ‘children’ with ‘businessmen’ and tweak a few other choice words.
‘As exercise for ambitious businessmen, climbing the corporate ladder has in it conspicuous-features of advantage. It is an exercise wherein all the muscles of the whole body are used. Climbing is the natural method of locomotion which the evolutionary predecessors of the human race were designed to practice, and is therefore almost ideally suited for the want-to-be CEO…
Again and importantly, the monkey instinct strong in all human beings and perhaps more clearly displayed in businessmen, makes climbing the corporate ladder a sport to which businessmen by a psychology about the same as that of a kitten at play with a ball, which of course is practice for hunting.’
How short is your boss’s memory?
Posted: December 11, 2013 Filed under: Pot Luck | Tags: business, cartoon, comic, funny, goldfish, humor, humour, memory, outside the box, work 2 Comments
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