Quotes About Workplace

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

En las oficinas no hay amigos; hay tipos que se ven todos los días, que rabian juntos o separados, que hacen chistes y se los festejan, que se intercambian sus quejas y se transmiten sus rencores, que murmuran del Directorio en general y adulan a cada director en particular. Esto se llama convivencia, pero sólo por espejismo la convivencia puede llegar a parecerse a la amistad.

El gran error de algunos empleados es tratar a sus patrones como si fueran personas".

En la oficina no hay amigos; hay tipos que se ven todos los días, que rabian juntos o separados, que hacen chistes y se los festejan, que se intercambian sus quejas y se transmiten sus rencores, que murmuran del Directorio en general y adulan a cada director en particular. Esto se llama convivencia, pero sólo por espejismo la convivencia puede llegara a parecerse a la amistad.

Management by fear. It made professional liars out of good men.

Scott, you're telling me to pad my hours. Isn't that cheating?" "Every place except a law firm.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Love your job but don't love your company because you may not know when your company stops loving you.

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

bosses were all vying with each other by working later and later. It was clear that exchanging emails late at night made her colleagues and bosses feel important.

recipients of such praise do work harder, but only initially. Once they sense the manipulation behind the appreciation, their productivity drops.

This difficulty in identifying and expressing feelings is common, and in my experience, especially so among lawyers, engineers, police officers, corporate managers, and career military personnel—people whose professional codes discourage them from manifesting emotions.

this "we will succeed" attitude leads to staff burnout, high turnover, and a weaker team than the one you started with.

Disengaged employees are destructively expensive to have on staff. In the United States alone, they cost as much as $350 billion in low productivity. Their attitude also poisons the day-to-day experience of working at your company, chasing away your best employees—not to mention your best customers.

in truth, the engaged culture lives and dies in the moment-to-moment decisions and behaviors of supervisors and managers. So it only stands to reason that engagement can be born anywhere inside the company.