David Brent’s Words Of Wisdom

David Brent is a fictional white-collar office middle-manager and one of the principal characters from the BBC television comedy The Office, played by co-writer and director Ricky Gervais. David Brent is the general manager of the Slough branch of the Wernham-Hogg paper merchants, and the boss to most of the other characters present in the series. Much of the comedy and pathos of the series centres on Brent’s many idiosyncrasies, hypocrisies, self-delusions and shameless self-promoting (including, but not limited to, playing up to the ‘documentary’ cameras present in his workplace). Here we take quick look back at David Brent’s unique ideas and take on the workplace and his advice on how to handle certain difficult situations.

If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven’t understood the seriousness of the situation.
  
I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work. 
  
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. 
  
If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.  
  
If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you’re trying to get them sacked. 
  
Eagles may soar high, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. 
  
You don’t have to be mad to work here! In fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not. 
  
Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do. 
  
Never do today that which will become someone else’s responsibility tomorrow. 
  
If at first you don’t succeed remove all evidence you ever tried. 

A problem shared is a problem halved, so is your problem really yours or just half of someone else’s?

You can buy The Office series 1 & 2, plus the Christmas Specials  on DVD from Play.com