Quotes About Workplace

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

I hated 'Dilbert.'

I didn't have any friends when I was at Radio 1. I didn't hang out with anyone and I didn't hang around after work. The other DJs hated me because first I was given the 'Breakfast Show,' and then I got on television.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

I believe it's wrong to say someone can't do his or her job because of their heritage.

When you see white, cisgendered, heterosexual men having conversations about gender identity where they go, 'Oh, those are your pronouns? OK, great. Let's get back to work,' it allows other people to say, 'Maybe if they can do it, I can do it.'

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.

Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.

Middle-class people are fond of saying that the miners would not wash themselves properly even if they could, but this is nonsense, as is shown by the fact that where pithead baths exist practically all the men use them.

Anybody who thinks factory jobs were good jobs needs to go visit somebody on a line," she said. "Most people wouldn't survive in a factory. Mitt Romney would die in a week.

At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc.

I've worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce great work... If people are happy, that's what's important. Life is short.