Quotes About Workplace

I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

I hate management. I hate management. I just do.

I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.

Emotional instability for whatever reason can infect the workplace and lower productivity as surely as malfunctioning equipment.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

When I used to work for the local government organisation we HAD TO change our Passwords every three months. To ensure I could remember it, I used to write it on a Post-It note and stick it above my desk.

It's funny. My own mother was a housewife all her life. And yet it's turned out that I've hired a lot of women for top jobs, and they've been among my best people. Often, in fact, they are far more effective than the men around them.

I was overworked, underpaid, and socially retarded. But

I believe there is a point at which efficiency is best served," he told me. "After you spend a certain number of hours at work, you pass your peak of efficiency. I function best in my office when I relax in the evenings.

If you require two hours of uninterrupted time, turn off your iPhone, Blackberry, or whatever your particular preference is. Use your tech aid wisely—obviously there are times when you need to be available.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Despite never once being cited by HR for discriminatory practices, or being known as a sexist, Google fired James for sharing his paper. Not only was James fired but he was publicly shamed for reporting on existing research, research which to any reasonable observer, is non-controversial. James made the ultimate mistake. He failed to understand the request for feedback was an empty one, that critical consideration of all sides of an argument was undesirable, even anathema to the cause.

According to this complaint, which I was never allowed to see, I harassed African Americans and women to the point that they were unable to do their job.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Differentiation favors people who are energetic and extroverted and undervalues people who are shy and introverted, even if they are talented.

She had shown me how to behave when applying for a job, how to show the proper amount of respect, submission, eagerness to please, even though in my heart I would not mean any of those things; she said that as soon as I had the job and was safely in it, I could let my real personality come out. I was not opposed to deception, but I woud have preferred not to start out that way.

These days, managers are little more than peers with additional administrative responsibility. Sucking up to them is not a good use of your time.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

When a motivated and skilled employee exits from their place of employment, that person is not just leaving and moving on but is in fact terminating (dismissing) that employer.

Have you ever noticed that people sometimes quit a job soon after returning from a vacation? We all have a higher tolerance for frustrating or unhealthy situations in our lives when they are constant, but when we get a little time away and then come back, that taste of freedom changes our perspective. What had been a dull ache turns into a sharp pain and becomes unbearable.

I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.