Quotes About Workplace

It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves." •

people who were working that day, the ten-of-twelve.

up by three metal desks, each with a computer

He glanced at her: "Sure. You guys must be really close." She was blunt: "Close enough to get your ass fired if you're suggesting that Colles and I are sleeping together." "I wasn't suggesting that," he muttered, rapidly backing off. "Try harder not to suggest it," she said; her tone did everything but smear blood on the windshield. (Page 16)

I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.

But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.

Not that I expected him to know; he didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.

I'm a terrific boss, and I'll brutally sabotage the career of any underling who says different.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful.

People leave managers, not companies

Even more than the rest, these five questions are most directly influenced by the employee's immediate manager. What does this tell us? It tells us that people leave managers, not companies.

Knowing the hard limits to our cognitive capacity and the huge cost of working long hours should not be an intractable problem to address. We have a century of data and a roll call of the disastrous consequences that follow those who insist that heroic hours are a proof of commitment to an employer. Companies that measure work by hours could make themselves smarter by the simple act of measuring contribution by output and rewarding those who go home.

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.