Unmotivational Posters to Make You Chuckle

It's interesting - you see "motivational" posters in offices and factories all over the palce, usually posted by the boss or by some committee tasked with "improving workplace morale" or "team building". Most of them are so cliched they are more "unmotivational" than motivational, to my way of thinking. I wonder if there have been any real studies done on whether they have any effect, and if so, what effect?

Anyway, if you are as tired of them as I am, here's the answer - real unmotivational posters to make your own dark commentary on work life, ambition, goals, teamwork - all the stuff we're supposed to think important.

Ambitious? Want to swim with the sharks? 

Reality is that most of us are little fish and are much more likely to get eaten by the sharks than to succeed in going head to head with them. Maybe it's time to stay out of the water.

Folks who work from home have to be self-motivated. They are self starters, keep working without a boss to keep them on track, set goals for themselves and reach them within the deadlines they set for themselves, and leap tall buildings with a single bound.

Right?

They also sleep whenever they like, imprinting the keyboard on their faces in the process; work in their pajamas or their underwear (or worse); work all night and sleep all day; and gradually disappear behind stacks of unfiled papers that take over the home office.

One of the things I love about self employment is - no meetings :)  I just end up in innumerable community group meetings instead!

Still, if you have to be in a meeting, you may as well make your opinion of the whole process clear, like the guys in this poster. As a student, in a summer job, I fell asleep with my head on the table during one meeting (heavy night the previous night). My boss was not pleased.

Whatever you call them, they are still funny. If you have one displayed on the wall, at a casual glance it looks just like the conventional motivational kind. Then your visitor goes up close to read the tag line - and you see their face change.

On this page I've chosen to feature posters which are "G rated". There are more available through Allposters and Amazon which are a lot more "frisky" - just click on any of the poster images on this page and follow the links to the demotivational or unmotivational poster category - you'll see a wide selection.