Quotes About Workplace

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

kissing one of the new blokes who works there. He's

The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent.

about whether the person could safely be kept on the job, and about how things might be turned around.

And yet, as you know, living in constant white water with the changes occurring all the time at work or in life can be stressful, unless people have a way of looking at change that helps them understand it. Enter the Cheese story. When

In one job, his boss always seemed to criticize him for what he did wrong and never noticed all the things he did right.

While in their conference room perusing some papers, he came upon a middle manager who was being yelled at by a senior vice president of finance. The poor man's shoulders were bent with anguish, his eyes were red and runny with sadness and humiliation, his hands shook, and he could scarcely raise his voice to defend himself.

The big problem is how hard it is to achieve equal relationships in a society whose work policies, school schedules, and social programs were constructed on the assumption that male breadwinner families would always be the norm. Tensions between men and women today stem less from different aspirations than from the difficulties they face translating their ideals into practice.

The old equation has changed. Most families no longer save money by keeping wives at home. They lose by not having wives in the workplace, where women have more opportunities than in the past to earn decent wages.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

I didn't tell her about the days when it felt like a peculiar form of torture to work somewhere where I was forced to watch each plane taxi on the runway, gather its energy like a great bird, then launch itself into the sky.

Work had reached a misery point where I had to make myself sing show tunes in my car even to make myself drive to the airport.

an open-plan office?" "I'm uninhibited.