After Hours

Revenge of the Demotivators

By // July 28, 2006, 10:54 PM PST // billdetwiler

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  • Arrogance

    The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.

    When your servers crash, end users scream, and network grinds to a halt, let these Demotivators make you smile. These soul-crushingly funny explanations of defeat, futility, failure, disloyalty and more, remind you that it could always be worse.

    © Despair, Inc.

    When you're ready for even more ways to crush those annoying outbreaks of spontaneous office happiness, check out our two other Demotivators galliers:

  • Change

    When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Defeat

    For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Disloyalty

    There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Disservice

    It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Dreams

    Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Effort

    Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Failure

    When your best just isn't good enough.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Fear

    Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Flattery

    If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Futility

    You'll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take, and, statistically speaking, 99 percent of the shots you do.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Goals

    It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Hazards

    There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Ignorance

    It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Indifference

    It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Irresponsibility

    No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Limitations

    Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Nepotism

    We promote family values here - almost as often as we promote family members.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Persistence

    It's over, man. Let her go.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Pretension

    The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Risks

    If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Stupidity

    Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Success

    Some people dream of success, while other people live to crush those dreams.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Teamwork

    A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

    © Despair, Inc.

  • Trouble

    Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

    © Despair, Inc.

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Arrogance

The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.

When your servers crash, end users scream, and network grinds to a halt, let these Demotivators make you smile. These soul-crushingly funny explanations of defeat, futility, failure, disloyalty and more, remind you that it could always be worse.

© Despair, Inc.

When you're ready for even more ways to crush those annoying outbreaks of spontaneous office happiness, check out our two other Demotivators galliers:

About Bill Detwiler

Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop supp...

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