Quotes About Workplace

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies, and men still don't. So women who wish to spend any substantial time at all with their own offspring will fall behind in their careers, and their earnings will be less.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Again, the main issue is not control-seeking bosses versus freedom-seeking workers; very often the person most likely to restrict the workplace freedom of one worker is another worker.

Studies have shown that women who are perceived as more attractive make 5 percent more at work and even get higher grades in school.

Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father by the boss, he would rise; the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter.

Mr. Dragonbreath's boss had brought in three motivational speakers in the last month to talk to all the employees at the antacid bottling plant, and Danny was suffering the fallout.

Women are thus being allowed to enter the professions at precisely the time when these professions are being devalued and high-flying men are going elsewhere

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

To be successful, cultivate positive attitudes of self-respect, pride in your contribution to your workplace, dedication to your job, cooperation with your employers and coworkers, desire to do the job right, personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability—and do it just because you value your life energy.

His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.

Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

We don't have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.