Corinne Maier Quotes
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Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
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What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.
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Money counts more than you think.
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Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
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Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
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Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
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The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.
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In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
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Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.
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The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.