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Quotes About Supervision

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
~ Henry Fielding
The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.
~ Unknown
A must-read for new supervisors and managers, with lots of essential lessons and tips.
~ Unknown
you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
~ Martha Wells
When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
~ Martha Wells
the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it's other humans. They kill each other either accidentally or on purpose and you have to clear that up fast because it jeopardizes the bond and determines whether the company has to pay out damages on it or not. SecUnits are ordered by the HubSystem to gather video and audio evidence because nobody trusts the human supervisors, including the other human supervisors.
~ Martha Wells
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
~ Martin H. Fischer
There are two types of lazy bosses. One is so lazy that they make you do not only your own work but theirs too. Worse, they lie to you about it, unloading all responsibility for their actions. The other is so lazy that not only do they not do their own work but they can't even be bothered to provide you work to do. These bosses lie as well, but only to themselves, passively. The first is the hardest boss to work for, the second the easiest.
~ Mat Johnson
Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.
~ Matt Haig
Having boys around at camp is hard. You have to be on the alert. Boys, for example, like exposing themselves. They walk back from the shower blocks with their towels around them, and next minute either someone flashes at you, or one of his friends grabs his towel off him and makes a run for it. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
~ Melina Marchetta
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
~ Merle Haggard
Further, more African Americans today are under criminal justice supervision—either in prison, on parole or probation—than were enslaved 10 years before the Civil War (Alexander 2012
~ Unknown
The rules were explicit: No employee, from the chief executive down to the lowliest mailroom clerk, could talk to the press without a PR minder in tow. The communications department ruthlessly monitored all press coverage, issuing stern correctives to newspapers or magazines that erred on so much as an executive title.
~ Unknown
Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.
~ Michael J. Fox
We, the people of Thiaoouba, are assigned to assist, guide and sometimes punish the inhabitants of planets under our guardianship.
~ Unknown
Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.
~ Michel Serres
Supervise your life, supervision means super-vision. Develop a vision of broadened horizons, deeper perspectives and neither jump to conclusions, nor jump to judgements impulsively without a 360 degree view. Have soulful eyes, MickeyMize.
~ Unknown
Always a "Property Manager," NEVER a "Landlord
~ Unknown
NEVER call yourself a "Landlord" again. Now you work for the "Property Manager" and you must follow company policies and procedures. You do not have the authority to do squat.
~ Unknown
He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.
~ Mike Royko
Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
~ Moisés Naím
enumeró las características fundamentales de las organizaciones burocráticas: puestos de trabajo específicos, con derechos, obligaciones, responsabilidades y límites a su autoridad, detallados y bien conocidos, así como un sistema claro de supervisión, subordinación y unidad de mando. Estas
~ Moisés Naím
El poder es la capacidad de dirigir o impedir las acciones actuales o futuras de otros grupos e individuos. O, dicho de otra forma, el poder es aquello con lo que logramos que otros tengan conductas que, de otro modo, no habrían adoptado.
~ Moisés Naím
Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.
~ Unknown