On January 23, 2025 there was a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic by Zach Weinersmith titled You can make your boss’s speech more memorable by replacing their motivational quote with Richard II’s speech to the peasants at Waltham, 1381.
Always proofread your PowerPoint slides before you speak. If you had asked an employee to insert a quote, then instead of one from Wayne Gretzy like:
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” or “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
you might find:
“You wretches detestable on land and sea:
You who seek equality with lords are unworthy to live.
Give this message to your colleagues: rustics you were,
and rustics you are still: you will remain in bondage,
not as before, but incomparably harsher.
For as long as we live we will strive to repress you,
and your misery will be an example in the eyes of posterity.”
The image was adapted from this one at Openclipart.
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