Sarcastic Inspirational Quotes for Work: A Hilarious Collection to Brighten Your Day

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it."

- Groucho Marx

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

"Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs."

- Mary Kay Ash

"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein

"Before he created the electric light, Edison had failed 10,000 times. Don’t let failure discourage you."

- Napoleon Hill

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"

- Dave Barry

"Many of life’s failures are experiences by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

- Don Marquis

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

- Earl Nightingale

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"The reward for good work is more work."

- Francesca Elisia

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The problem is they want a week’s pay for it."

- Joey Adams

"The elevator to success is not an option. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished."

- Groucho Marx

"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there."

- Josh Billings

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."

- John Gotti

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."

- Peter Drucker

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real greats make you feel that you, too, can be great."

- Mark Twain

"People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."

- George Carlin

"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers."

- Homer Simpson

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

- Edward Bergen

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Mark Twain

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work."

- David Ogilvy

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it half-assed. That’s the American way."

- Homer Simpson

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey

"I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means? You know what your boss was trying to say? It’s like, ‘Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.’"

- Chris Rock

"It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

- Muhammad Ali

"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers."

- Homer Simpson

"Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

- Mark Twain

"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you."

- Steven Wright

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

- Robert Frost

"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

- Oscar Wilde

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train."

- The Office

"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job."

- Zig Ziglar

"I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around."

- Homer Simpson

"Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor."

- John Ciardi

"I’m not retiring, I am graduating . . . retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen."

- Junior Seau

"I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around."

- Homer Simpson

"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

- Phyllis Diller

"Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired."

- Michel Tournier

"Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil—and you’ll never get a job working for a tabloid."

- Phil Pastoret

"I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying."

- Rita Rudner

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

- Charles Lamb

"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done."

- Sam Ewing

"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."

- Ted Turner

"Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day."

- Ed Bernard

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

- Don Herold

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

- Ogden Nash

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter."

- John Gotti

"There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."

- David Letterman

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'"

- Don Marquis

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?"

- J. Paul Getty

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

- Pablo Picasso

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

- Steve Jobs

"Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties."

- Doug Larson

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

- T.S. Eliot

"If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

- George Burns

"Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment."

- Dilbert

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell

"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative."

- Woody Allen

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view."

- Dalai Lama

"The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams

"If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work."

- Woody Allen

"No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

"Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you're finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock."

- Claude MacDonald

"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."

- David Letterman

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."

- Charlie McCarthy

"Sarcasm helps you overcome the harsh reality of life, makes people smile, and eases the pain of scars."

- Mahmoud Darwish

"Most people miss the opportunity because they dress in overalls and pretend to work."

- Thomas Edison

"The road to success is always in construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Change is not a four-letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you."

- Billy Wilder

"Well-behaved females rarely make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."

- Henny Youngman

"Success will bring you the greatest revenge. I believe women should either respond with sarcasm, or success."

- Kangana Ranaut

"Success is not something you can hide. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

"Always remember that your uniqueness is what you have. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"Listen, smile, accept, and then do what you thought you would do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"Leadership refers to the art of convincing someone else to do what you want, because he is motivated to."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"People may say that it is impossible to do something, but I do it every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so."

- Douglas Adams

"The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse."

- Denise Miller

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

- Lewis Grizzard

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

- Aristotle

"When I was 16 I worked in a pet store, and they fired me because... they had three snakes, and one day I braided them."

- Steven Alexander Wright

"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"You never become a howling success by just howling."

- Bob Harrington

"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."

- Joseph Heller

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

- Savielly Tartakower

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

- Earl Wilson

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

- Rita Mae Brown

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

"There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

- Peter Drucker

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B."

- Fats Domino

"There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."

- Sarah Brown

"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."

- Quentin Crisp

"Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues."

- David Ogilvy

"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."

- Andrew Young

"Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes."

- Henry Thoreau

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

"The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour."

- Wernher von Braun

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I don’t eat meat because I love animals. I eat vegetables because I hate plants."

- Whitney Brown

"Education is what one does after he has forgotten everything he learned at school."

- Albert Einstein

"Some cause happiness everywhere they go, others wherever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"Women who want to be equal with men are not ambitious."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I do not know what weapons World War III is going to be fought with, but World War IV can be fought with sticks or stones."

- Albert Einstein

"I’m not good at giving advice… Can you make a sarcastic comment?"

- Chandler Bing, 'Friends'

"History teaches us that men, nations, and the world behave wisely when they exhaust all other options."

- Abba Eban

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

- Murphy’s Laws

"The problem with being open-minded is that people will insist on trying to put things in their place."

- Terry Pratchett

"If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

- Donald Trump

"I’m not old enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"Computers can understand sarcasm better than Americans."

- Geoffrey Hinton

"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy."

- Cynthia Nelms

"My naturally-born sarcasm can sometimes be a little too much at times, and that’s something I’m not ashamed to admit."

- Tom Bergeron

"Friendship can be like peeing on oneself: Everyone can see it but only you feel the warmth it brings."

- Robert Bloch

"A man can live happily with any woman if he doesn’t love them."

- Oscar Wilde

"Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet."

- Robin Williams

"It’s always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black."

- Paul Newman

"I have always wanted to be somebody. But now I realize that I should be more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Light travels quicker than sound. This is why people seem brighter than they actually are."

- Steven Wright

"A lie can be halfway around the globe before the truth can have a chance to get its pants up."

- Winston Churchill

"When life is giving you lemons, squirt somebody in the eye."

- Cathy Guisewite

"I am so clever, sometimes I don’t understand a word of what I’m saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"What is the difference between a tornado in the South and a divorce? Absolutely nothing! Someone’s losing a trailer, number one."

- Robin Williams

"Never delay what you can do tomorrow!"

- Mark Twain

"You can’t have everything. It’s impossible to have everything."

- Steven Wright

"Before judging a man, walk one mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!"

- Billy Connolly

"An optimist believes this is the best possible universe. The opposite of optimists is pessimists who fear this to be true."

- Robert Oppenheimer

"I am an early bird and a night owl… so I am wise and I have worms."

- Michael Scott

"Luck can be what you have left over after you give 100 per cent."

- Langston Coleman

"I hailed from a tough neighborhood. I was once attacked by a man with a knife. I knew he wasn’t a professional, the knife had butter on it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"Bad decisions are good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

"A half-truth is a lie."

- Yiddish Proverb

"Sarcasm is the last refuge for the imaginatively broke."

- Cassandra Clare

"I’ll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that’s probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess."

- Cassandra Duffy

"I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong."

- Russell Lynes

"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."

- Billy Sunday

"If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck."

- Elvis Presley

"What are the appropriate proportions of maxims? The minimum amount of sound and the maximum amount of sense."

- Mark Twain

"Try sleeping with a moth if you feel you are too small for a change."

- Dalai Lama

"This music will not do. It lacks sarcasm."

- Samuel Goldwyn

"I love French sarcasm and irony. They are a great source of bad moods."

- Marjane Satrapi

"We suffer from too much sarcasm."

- Marianne Moore

"Why is it called rush hour when there’s no movement?"

- Robin Williams

"Politics: ‘Poli’ a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures.'"

- Robin Williams

"I’m a bit sassy with some sarcasm, but I’m also stoic at times – and brash."

- Mike Daniels

"Calamities come in two types: misfortunes to us and good fortune for others."

- Ambrose Bierce

"I don’t enjoy irony or sarcasm. However, I like when someone tells you a joke but then it turns out to be serious."

- Jens Lekman

"Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese."

- Billie Burke

"The message of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is that your individuality will be mocked and shunned until it proves useful."

- Zoomulator

"If at first you don't succeed, try try again. But then stop, because there's no point in making a fool of yourself."

- KhaoticMess

""You tried your best and you failed. The lesson is: never try.""

- RoboWonder

"Don't forget, you're here forever."

- bife_de_lomo

""This is the worst day of my life" "The worst day of your life SO FAR""

- SuspiciousChair8918

"Remember: every corpse on Mt. Everest was once a motivated person."

- InkIcan

"In my experience, it’s more like, life’s a bitch and you go on living."

- SnooChipmunks126

"I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday."

"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."

"Teamwork makes the dream work, except when you have that one coworker."

"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is probably not for you."

"My boss told me to start every presentation with a joke. The first slide was my paycheck."

- Unknown

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!"

- Anonymous

"Work until your bank account looks like your phone number."

- Anonymous

"Always give 100%, except when you’re giving blood."

- Anonymous

"I love sarcasm. It’s like punching people in the face but with words."

"Experience is the name many people give their mistakes."

- Anonymous

"A diamond is simply a lump of coal that performed well under pressure."

- Anonymous

"Getting paid to sleep... that's my dream job."

"I love the work-life balance…especially the part where I don’t work."

"My team is great. We work together like an old car: it takes time to get started."

"I’m all about balance. 80% work, 20% looking at cat videos."

"I have a great work-life balance: 70% work, 30% pretending to work."

"Some people work hard. Others are hardly working."

"I communicate best through sarcastic emails and passive-aggressive notes."

"Working hard or hardly working? Why not both?"

"Work hard, nap hard."

"I’m not stressed. I’m just trying to figure out how to avoid working."

"I’m not overworked. I’m just underpaid for what I do."

"If work was so great, the rich would have kept it for themselves."

"Time management is a great way to spend time managing your time."

"I don’t have time to manage my time; I’m too busy trying to manage my distractions."

"Email communication: where ‘please see attached’ is code for ‘I haven’t done this yet.’"

"Great teamwork is like a good marriage—lots of patience, understanding, and distractions."

"I’m the best team player. I delegate everything to others."

"My work is so much fun, I forget I’m working—until I look at my paycheck."

"There’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is a ‘me’."

"I work hard because my dreams are big, but my bank account is small."

"Overworked and underpaid. Is that the American Dream?"

"Nothing says teamwork like awkward silences and muted microphones."

"My office culture? Pretend to work while others pretend to care."

"I love the sound of ‘we need to talk’ in emails."

"Sorry for the delay, I was too busy replying to my other 100 emails."

"Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright."

- Anonymous

"Work snacks are the secret to surviving the day."

"Lunch break: the time to discuss what you’re going to eat for dinner."

"My favorite part of working is the 2 pm snack."

"Who needs a work-life balance when you have free office snacks?"

"I have a strong relationship with office coffee, but it’s complicated."

"After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF."

"Teamwork: the art of making someone else do your work."

"My idea of a perfect workday is one where no work happens."

"I don’t get paid enough to care this much."

"Stress is the secret ingredient to a successful workday."

"I work because I love money. Just kidding, I love avoiding stress."

"The only time I’m on time is when I’m waiting for the clock to strike 5."

"I plan to do absolutely nothing all day and still somehow manage to be late."

"I would like to work less, but I’m addicted to Netflix."

"I love my job, but my office is more of a hostage situation."

"A good office is like a good sandwich—full of stuff you like and things you don’t care about."

"Office coffee is like office gossip—strong, bitter, and never enough."

"My office dress code is: business on the top, pajamas on the bottom."

"I don’t wear the same clothes to work every day. I wear pajamas to work every day."

"Work clothes? More like, ‘How long can I wear the same shirt before it starts to smell?’"

"Work attire: the art of looking like you tried without actually trying."

"I wear a suit because my job is serious, but my heart says sweatpants."

"I wish my job had a snooze button."

"Don't follow your friends off a bridge; lead them."

"The problem with communication is the ‘other person’."

"Mirrors can’t talk, lucky for you they can’t laugh either."

- Anonymous

"It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has the same taste."

- Anonymous

"If you find me offensive. Then I suggest you quit finding me."

"Life is too short. Smile while you have teeth."

- Anonymous

"If I had a dollar for every clever thing you said. I’ll be poor."

- Anonymous

"Spend your entire life doing weird things with weird people."

- Anonymous

"Let’s share, you’ll take the grenade, I’ll take the pin."

- Anonymous

"What doesn’t kill you gives you a set of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a dark sense of humor."

- Anonymous

"I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life."

- Anonymous

"Be the reason someone smiles today…or the reason they drink. Anything works."

- Anonymous

"There’s no better vacation than my boss being on vacation."

- Anonymous

"Yes, I walked out mid-conversation. You were bored to death, and my survival instincts kicked into high gear."

- Anonymous

"I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I thought you knew everything."

- Anonymous

"Sarchotic: People don’t know if you’re serious or joking when you’re so sarcastic."

- Anonymous

"Unless you are Google, stop pretending that you know everything."

- Anonymous

"Without Geometry, Life is Pointless."

- Anonymous

"Silence is gold. Duct tape can be described as silver."

- Anonymous

"I’ve reached an age where my brain can go from a ‘You” Probably shouldn’t say that” to “What the heck, let’s just see what happens.”"

- Anonymous

"When people ask me a stupid question, it’s my legal obligation to make a sarcastic comment."

- Anonymous

"I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams."

- Anonymous

"Zombies eat brains. You’re safe."

"Stressed, blessed, and coffee obsessed."

"The best part of my job is that the coffee is free."

"If at first you don’t succeed, try management."

"Failure is not an option-it comes bundled with the software."

"Getting paid to sleep… that’s my dream job."

"Life’s a bitch and then you die."

"The early worm gets eaten."

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Trying is the first step to failing!"

"No one is as dumb as all of us together."

"Just because you’re special, doesn’t mean you’re useful."

"The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train."

"It's never too late to give up."

"Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job."

"Sometimes the best part of my job is that the chair swivels."

"My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I'm still at work."