If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.