Quotes About Workplace

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

Dear Boss! Don't be a boss-hole.

This same kind of overreaction occurs when an ending is viewed as symbolic of some larger loss. The minor layoff in a company that has never had layoffs before is an example. It isn't the loss of the particular individuals—it's the loss of the safety people felt from the no-layoff policy.

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss. You spend much of your time mentor shopping, trying to find some successful older person who will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.

Okay, listen up! Clear your desk...NOW! Despite what some people believe, a cluttered desk does not indicate genius. Au contraire! It signals confusion and creates stress. Even mini-clutter will grow and eventually fill every inch. Keep your desk clear of everything except your project du jour and your family picture. 22

The first rule of your relationship with your boss is to understand that it's a business transaction.

The relationship you have with your immediate boss is one of the oddest you'll have in life. You generally don't choose this person, you generally don't care for this person, yet you have to honor and obey this person.As you rise, that relationship only becomes odder and more slippery.

No matter what bosses say, it's all about them. You are just an instrument to them. They'll treat you well as long as you're useful.

What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces where even when there's nothing for them to do, they still can't admit it openly.

bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild introduced the notion of "emotional labor.

I have found it most useful to break down the types of bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.