Quotes About Workplace

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

My girlfriend works at Hooters. In the kitchen.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?

Every Friday is black where I work.

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.

Late one night, an account man was having sex with his secretary. He was fairly junior, so his inside office didn't have a door, and the big boss happened to be working late and caught them. The result: the account guy was promoted and got an office with a door; the secretary was fired.

Harley ignored the sarcasm in the manager's voice. "Things are pretty... tense... here." "I'm sure they are. Mr. Sheenan is very unhappy, as we are, too. You've put

Zita Wilensky, a 16-year veteran, was the only white employee of Miami-Dade County Domestic Violence Unit. Her co-workers made fun of her and called her gringa and Americana. Miss Wilensky says her boss gave her 60 days to learn Spanish, and fired her when she failed to do so.271

There are worse offenses than sending large spreadsheets as PDFs, but offhand I can't come up with any.

When I was a little boy, I used to work in a sweatshop. We made deodorant.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

It's time for companies to stop asking their employees to breathlessly chase ever-higher, ever-more-artificial targets set by ego.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

You don't create a culture. It happens. This is why new companies don't have a culture. Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.