Quotes About Workplace

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

Everybody has a corporate structure.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

There are less opportunities for women.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.

Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.

There cannot be any company or organisation where 100% of the people are sadhus or mahatmas.

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

Whatever you sexual orientation is, it doesn't affect how you work or who you are or what you do.

No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative. The necessary collaboration is not limited to the insides of lowest-level teams; there has to be collaboration as well between teams and between and among the organizations the teams belong to.

The top quartile, those who did the exercise most rapidly and effectively, work in space that is substantially different from that of the bottom quartile. The top performers' space is quieter, more private, better protected from interruption, and there is more of it. What

IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)

The bald fact is that many companies provide developers with a workplace that is so crowded, noisy, and interruptive as to fill their days with frustration. That alone could explain reduced efficiency as well as a tendency for good people to migrate elsewhere.