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Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12) QUOTES

Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12) QUOTES

1 " Snow White was such a wuss. All that housework. Looking after seven men. And she sang while she was doing it. That girl was not bright. "

― Jodi Taylor , Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12)

2 " Trust me, adhering to everyone else’s rules is unrewarding, emotionally exhausting and not a lot of fun. "

― Jodi Taylor , Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12)

3 " They did this at the bank I worked at. We all had to go on a course where bright, sparkly people with frightening smiles exhorted us to embrace change because those who can’t die out. I think they cited the dinosaurs.’ ‘So they weren’t killed by an asteroid at all, then?’ said Bashford, astonished. ‘Not according to the expensive people hired to tell us that our expertise, the working relationships we’d built up over the years, all our hard work was now utterly valueless – as would we be if we didn’t get with the new programme. According to them, it was their inability to adapt to this month’s new ideas and working practices that did for the dinosaurs and the asteroid had nothing to do with it. They were quite horrified at our lack of enthusiasm for massive redundancies while senior managers – reluctantly, of course – accepted promotions and pay rises with increased bonuses. "

― Jodi Taylor , Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12)

4 " We all had to go on a course where bright, sparkly people with frightening smiles exhorted us to embrace change because those who can’t die out. I think they cited the dinosaurs "

― Jodi Taylor , Another Time, Another Place (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #12)