Monday, May 16, 2011

Monday, May 9, 2011

Career ups and downs


Trooper 310 now wishes he’d listened when the personal development coach said you should always have an elevator pitch ready.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Everyone loves a royal wedding


The Emperor’s grandson is getting married and an imperial holiday has been declared. But do the Death Star staff get the day off? Do they even get overtime pay?

Monday, April 25, 2011

Sad devotion to that ancient religion


“I find your lack of respect for the rich diversity of our multi-faith workforce disturbing. The power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power to send people on cultural awareness training.”

Monday, April 18, 2011

How like the rebel scum to disregard bureaucracy


“Threepio, shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!”
“I’m terribly sorry, master Luke, all Artoo can manage is crashing their website, although to be frank I think it may be doing that all on its own. To reset the masher program I’ll need to send a request to IT. I don’t suppose you have a job code for this, master Luke? Master Luke?”

Monday, April 11, 2011

Evil cares about sustainability too


The Empire encourages TIE-fighter-pooling as a good way to save fuel and avert galactic warming.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Meeting those recruitment targets


“A sister? Obi-wan was right to hide her from me. If you will not join our graduate training programme, perhaps she will.”

Monday, March 28, 2011

Leading from the front


The Emperor himself is personally overseeing the final stages of construction. It stands to reason that, as the technicians’ manager’s manager’s manager’s manager, he can do their job much better than they can.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Restructuring


The Prisoner Security and Terrestrial Assault departments don’t quite understand why they’ve been merged, but rumour has it the organogram is now almost perfectly symmetrical.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Title bump


Tarkin was so chuffed to be promoted from Moff to Grand Moff that he barely noticed when the Emperor added that there was no budget for pay rises this year.

Monday, March 7, 2011

They’re such a well-behaved pair


Vader has the kids this week and thanks to an unreliable babysitter he’s had to bring them along to work. “They’ll just play quietly in a corner,” he said.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The prerogatives of senior management


Vader: “Several rebel fighters have broken off from the main group. Come with me.”
Pilot: “Has this project been booked in?”