Quotes About Workplace

If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.

It is amazing what colleagues tell you about the inefficiencies and about what works and what doesn't. It is a real-life check on our ideas.

I don't party with my colleagues after work.

You don't go from being friends and work colleagues, working in a close environment, to then not speaking.

Balaji is one of the most comforting working experiences I have had in my career.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

I don't necessarily see my not wearing makeup as a social comment or that it's because I work in a female-dominated industry.

I've never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation.

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color, that does bring in different stories and different people.

I think, in this business, you grow up quickly because you are surrounded by adults; you are needing to stay present and stay cautious of what you are saying. I have been working since I was 10, but I also went to public high school, so I know how to handle all of it.

In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.

I love the people at my job. I love my boss. I love my camera men, I love my crew - because they all surrounded me with straight love.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the same people who you actually enjoy and respect, your day project was easy.

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Seventy percent of women retire in poverty after a life time of institutionalized discrimination in the workplace without equal pay or compensation for staying home to care for their families.