Quotes About Workplace

The tattoos on my legs started because they didn't let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.

I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

I think the office place is always seen as such a professional, sterile environment, so there's something unusually thrilling about taking that well-behaved, polished environment and turning it upside down and shaking it up.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

Three rules for a career: 1) Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself; 2) Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.