“Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job” is a jocular work saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on the newsgroup ba.mountain-folk on October 30, 1996, and is of unknown authorship.
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Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.
It is your job to find ways around your boss’s roadblocks.
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Engineering and Creativity
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Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.
It is your job to find ways around your boss’s roadblocks.
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Management philosophy for dealing with employees: “You should never underestimate your abilities. That’s my job.”
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Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job. - Unknown
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Laughter Is the Best Medicine: @Work:
America’s Funniest Jokes, Quotes, and Cartoons
By Editors of Reader’s Digest
New York, NY: Readers Digest Association, Inc.
2012
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“Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.”
—UNKNOWN
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The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
By Fred Metcalf
London, UK: Biteback Publishing Ltd
2014
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Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.
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“Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.” - Unknown
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Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job. Unknown
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Never underestimate your abilities,.. that’s your employer’s job
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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