Quotes About Workplace

In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.

Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work.

Were Sridevi and Jaya Prada rivals? Look, I worked with both extensively. I even did films in which both were my co-stars. I never saw then being anything but thoroughly professional with one another.

As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.

Otherwise, his desk is immaculate. In accordance with the four Ds of his system, everything that has not been done, delegated, or dropped has been deferred to a half dozen two-drawer file cabinets, which contain his alphabetized plastic folders with labels printed by the little machine next to his computer. You might dismiss this all as evidence of dreary anal-retentiveness, but Allen could not be less dour or more relaxed.

Professionalism: Every person, every business, say their professional but they bring their corrupt politics, their unjust behaviors, their fraudulent religious views and their flawed religions into the office and into people's lives everyday. Only if you stop bringing all this harmful bullshit into the office and the work environment, only if you are truly a just person at all times might you reach the status of professionalism.

You could haul her up, lose your temper, fire her. Your blood pressure is likely to rise; the office atmosphere will be vitiated; the aftereffects of your rage will probably be felt by you and your fellow workers for days and weeks after the incident; you will probably have to work particularly hard at restoring the peace and reestablishing a situation of mutual trust.

Negroes know what I'm talking about. Back then, the white man during the war was so pressed for personnel that he began letting some Negroes put down their buckets and mops and dust rags and use a pencil, or sit at some desk, or hold some 25 cent title.

This company didn't have one culture. It had as many cultures as it did managers. No

In companies with over 150 employees, 82 percent of people work on teams, and 72 percent work on more than one team. Even in small companies, of fewer than twenty people, this finding

people leave managers, not companies. So

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

I landed a job as a clerk-typist at a huge engineering and construction firm in the city, in the nuclear quality-assurance department, where I labored under a tsunami wave of triplicate forms and memos. It was very upsetting. It was also so boring that it made my eyes feel ringed with dark circles, like Lurch. I finally figured out that most of this paperwork could be tossed without there being any real … well … fallout, and this freed me up to write short stories instead.