You know those motivational posters in airplane magazines?

They should look like this.



Obvious reminder of the Simpsons, remember when it went something like this?

Homer: Boy, if something's too hard, just quit. It gives you more time to watch TV.
Bart: Thanks, Dad. What's on?
Homer (voice and soundtrack swelling with emotion): it doesn't matter.

But that's too easy. Real life provides better self-parody. This from Steve Striffler's ethnographic article on working in a poultry plant in Arkansas:

At 3 p.m. sharp, Javier, my orientation leader, gathers up the new recruits and escorts us into a small classroom that contains a prominently displayed sign. "Democracies depend on the political participation of its citizens, but not in the workplace." Written in both English and Spanish, the message is clear in any language.