Quotes About Workplace

73% of companies have decided that lying to their employees about their potential to advance is the right choice.

As adults, though, many of us default again to buddying up with those in proximity to us at home or work, which can be great, provided we like each other. If we don't? We're stuck with them anyway and every interaction becomes a master class in passive aggression.

Grizzled white men poured drinks and dispensed dubious wisdom. Young white women in tight clothes delivered the food and the smiles and said sorry all the time. Short brown men cooked it all and cleaned it all up, and still managed to rise above the racial oppression of the United states to make kissing sounds at us waitresses whenever we were in the kitchen.

Women employees were reportedly hired for their personal attractions rather than their skills, and several young ladies claimed that they were refused employment until they yielded to the passionate embraces of the superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

But a highly competitive or unstructured job, or a highly critical supervisor, can trigger the intense, uncontrolled anger and the hypersensitivity to rejection to which the borderline is susceptible. The rage can permeate the workplace and literally destroy a career.

The most annoying thing about the couple of times that I worked in office is that when you show up in the morning you say hi to everyone and then for some reason, you have to continue to greet these people all day every time you see them.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

I have had bosses that were genuinely excited when I told them I was pregnant. I feel very blessed, but I also know I need to continue to do excellent work and stay organized.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.