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My own personal favorite, from my GM, explaining why the sales team was getting six-figure bonuses for an extremely successful year entirely driven by engineering, which was getting barely four figures:

“Sales people are motivated by money; engineers are motivated by fun work. So just do your job and have fun!”

I’m not even interested in money, just a little respect would’ve been great! Needless to say, I quit shortly thereafter.