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Firm's antimotivational products tap worker cynicism
By Diane E. Lewis, Globe Staff, 11/29/2003
Think positive! Teams work! Work is the Elixir of Life!
OK, no one has ever uttered that last statement. Still, nothing is more irritating than those smarmy motivational posters that exhort employees to produce more and work harder.
Slackers and malcontents take heart: At last someone is promoting cynicism, mediocrity, and dissatisfaction with life in a world awash in books, videos, and management gurus selling success.
Motivational maven Dale Carnegie must be spinning in his grave.
Texas-based Despair Inc. is blanketing Massachusetts -- and the rest of the country -- with 2.3 million catalogs, just in time for the holidays. The company is pitching its antimotivational calendars, caps, and mugs to an audience fed up with their workplaces, coworkers, and managers and ready to embrace the caustic humor its products promote.
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The whole article:
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/11/29/think_negative?mode=PF
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Gosh, I thought Dilbert had the corner on cynicism (and there were times I thought someone from my company must be ghostwriting Dilbert).
Paula

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