Quotes About Workplace

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

But above all, meetings have to be the exception rather than the rule. An organization in which everybody meets all the time is an organization in which no one gets anything done.

It is incumbent on the people who work with them to observe them, to find out how they work, and to adapt themselves to what makes their bosses most effective. This, in fact, is the secret of "managing" the boss.

There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city.

Each man, passing through his department's hall, felt the special subsonic disquiet the overtime executive in topcoat and unfresh suit and loosened tie feels as he moves in nighttime through areas meant to be experienced in, and as, daytime.

Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.

She said, "I'm going to have you fired." I had two people say that to me today, "I'm going to have you fired." Go ahead, be my guest. I'm wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn't get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 

Elsewhere in London, offices are open plan/floor to ceiling glass/sites of synergy/wireless/gleaming. There persists a belief in the importance of a ping-pong table.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.

That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

Anytime I think about my office, I think about creativity.

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

corporations not only produce "good and services" but also "workplace conditions," and highlights the economic rationality of investing in social responsibility to enhance the well-being of employees.

It is not the fault of the baristas working behind the counter. It is the responsibility of the leadership team to keep our culture alive, growing and thriving.

the guards at the door let us through with no more than a glance. British security guards, I've noticed, always do this; unless you happen actually to work in the building they're guarding, in which case they'll check everything from the fillings in your teeth to your trouser turn-ups to see if you're the same person who went out to get a sandwich fifteen minutes ago.

the welfare of employees was an important component in commercial success.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

One more Socially Responsible cheep out of you, doggy, and it's back in the workbag for the rest of the afternoon.

Frederick Hertzberg begins his famous article "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" as follows: "How many articles, books, speeches, and workshops have pleaded plaintively, 'How do I get an employee to do what I want him to do?'" (italics added). Read it again. Is Hertzberg speaking about motivation or manipulation? In