Quotes About Workplace

Addams's] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare's play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality and self-determination.

Minerva never knew she had other choices. She was lost in a mystified relationship with her father substitute bosses at work. In always trying to do the right thing and please her bosses, she was reenacting her original relationship with her insensitive, unavailable father. Many people reenact their mystified source relationships at work. Their offices become exact replicas of their family of origin. I will have more to say about this later.

The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.

60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.

Authors Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb indicate that people who fail on the job commonly cite "office politics" as the reason for their failures, but the reality is that what they call politics is often nothing more than regular interaction with other people.

Los estudios de la creatividad sugieren que la variable mayor de si los empleados serán creativos o no es si perciben que tienen permiso".

Being unappreciated for hard work sucks! Especially when I put a lot of time and effort for them to just over look it...

Being a girl sucks because I just know I'll never have the same job opportunities or options in industry that I want to work in, because I am a woman, and the industry I am going into is mainly dominated by men, and always will be.

I wish 'You idiot.' was an appropriate way to end a work email.

I don't have a problem with idiots. I just have a problem working with them.

Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

The office' is a cemetery of dreams.

I was just like that anyhow - wherever I used to work, jobs-wise, I'd always be in the canteen talking to people and laughing and everything.

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.

A critical lesson I learned is that we have to make sure all our employees, particularly new hires, have a full immersion in our culture.

Unfortunately, we are part of an industry where if a man and woman have worked together for such a long period of time, they have to be linked up.

Amy Adams was great to work with, fun and lovely.

But the idea behind French hours is that instead of doing a 12 and a half or 13-hour day with a lunch break in the middle, you do a 10-hour straight day. Everyone kind of eats food throughout the day anyway on the set.

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

As far as the 'Mad Men' thing, I love 'Mad Men.' It's one of my favorite shows; I think it's an amazing series.

One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.