Quotes About Workplace

You can't have women working in an office building after two a.m. unless it's a public service, but I have to give my clients all-night service, so there on Sixty-ninth Street I've got four operators for the three switchboards, and they all live right there in the apartment. That way I can have one at the boards from eight till two at night, and another one from two o'clock on. After nine in the morning three are on, one for each board, for the daytime load.

In case you haven't noticed, the men get all the plum jobs here, and the women are stuck with the clerical stuff, even though they are often better qualified." "I

There was Henry Blakely who fell into the threshing machine that time and that was pretty grizzly.

The stress-free workplace that is most productive is the one where workers respect each other's differences.

Este grupo (que inclui supervisores, chefias e diretores) tem uma particularidade unica - é um grupo constituido de profissionais que deixaram de ser empregados, mas não chegaram a virar patroes. Sao os Roberta Close da empresa.

Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done.

The second error is the assumption that business or the work environment is the only tribal affiliation people have. By sheer proximity, the workplace tribe may seem to dwarf all the others, but anyone who works at home will find they actually belong to four or five major tribes—starting with the family and extending outward to the neighborhood, the garden club, library volunteers, church, and the like.

Companies hoping to recruit the best and the brightest must demonstrate that they trust their employees with the freedom to work anywhere. They must assume that they're buying talent and dedication, not what the Brazilians call "butt-on-chair time.

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

Como decía mi padre: "lo importante no es el tiempo que uno pasa en algo, sino lo que pasa durante ese tiempo". Cuando bajan los niveles de compromiso no solo se afecta la productividad sino que el servicio al cliente también decae. Lo único que aumenta es el ausentismo y, por razones similares, la rotación de personal.

porque antes no podían tener contacto con la gente de la gerencia, pues "siempre estaban en reunión".

Britain, though, that humor is most intertwined in business talks. The British hate heavy or drawn-out meetings and will resort to various forms of humor and distracting tactics to keep it all nice and lively.

The truth is that modern inequality exists because democracy is excluded from the economic sphere. It needs therefore to be dealt with by an extension of democracy into the workplace. We need to experiment with every form of economic democracy – employee ownership, producer and consumer co-operatives, employee representatives on company boards and so on.

As Davy said, so it happened. The ironworkers started to work in the pit for not much more than some of the boys. Some of them even started pulling the trams in place of the ponies. A lot of the older and better-paid men got discharged without being told why, although it was put out that they were too old and could not work as well as they ought. But that was nonsense, because Dai Griffiths, one of them, was one of the best in the Valley and known for it.

some people around the Institute were skeptical of her ability to work in a space suit in Level 4. She was a "married female"—and therefore, they claimed, she might panic. They claimed that her hands looked nervous or clumsy, not good for work with Level 4 hot agents. People felt that she might cut herself or stick herself with a contaminated needle—or stick someone else. Her hands became a safety issue. But the real issue was that she was a woman.

The gases in a coal mine could kill. Miners called them damps, from Middle Low German dampf, vapors.

Come sit on my lap. I want to hear all about your sexual harassment lunch. -Hank to his secretary, Rachel

You know, in this job we really need someone who is responsible." The man thinks for a moment, then replies, "I am perfect for you. In my last job lots of things went badly wrong, and they always said that I was responsible.

I hated visiting Hephaestus's office. His desk toys were so mesmerizing I found myself staring at them for hours, sometimes decades. I missed the entire 1480s that way

you can't get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers

You can't get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don't need them to be your buddies.

A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal

the air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer, Draeger writes. The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in