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Corporate Remotivation

Opinion
Mar 11, 20061 min
Data Center

You know those hideous “motivational” posters that corporations put up in their offices as if a picture with some “go team, go” sentiment will change the way their employees think? If you loathe this kind of crap as much as I do check out of Despair.com.

Despair’s posters such as a shot of the pyramids above the text “Achievement / You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.” are fantastic parodies (see the poster gallery) while their videos such as Addressing Employee Complaints are outstanding, cynical, and hilarious.

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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