Quotes About Workplace

Office of Confusion and Panic

I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.

In this new, curiously sealed habitat of mine, the fondness and trust I felt toward those I worked with and the kindness and support they showed me and my family were a saving grace. This was true for Ray Rogers and Quincy Jackson, the two young navy valets assigned to the Oval Office, who served refreshments to visitors and whipped up a solid lunch for me every day in the tiny kitchenette wedged next to the dining space.

In Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997), Kim Moody cites studies finding an increase in stress-related workplace injuries and illness between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He argues that rising stress levels reflect a new system of "management by stress" in which workers in a variety of industries are being squeezed to extract maximum productivity, to the detriment of their health.

Hard-headed corporate culture is becoming interested in how to get more work out of fewer workers. They're realizing that if their workers are happy, they will work harder and more productively. So they're leading the charge."49

Mires a donde mires, te encuentras con la jerga empresarial: "incentivos", "valor añadido", "pasos adelante"; las mismas cadenas de mando, las mismas oficinas con iguales mesas y cubículos, la misma funcionalidad neutral, sin concesión alguna a la estética; la misma fe en la motivación y en el espíritu de equipo prefabricado.

Quienes están haciendo las reestructuraciones despiden a una persona de cada tres y luego ponen un póster inspiracional en el pasillo para tapar la herida psicológica.

la persona que sabe trabajar en equipo es, por definición, alguien "positivo". Alguien que siempre luce una sonrisa, que no se queja, que no les da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y que se somete con buen humor a lo que le pida el jefe.

Drug Testing: A Bad Investment.

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead a month was seeing him every day at work.

How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

I avoided the emplyee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real downside to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. -p. 513

I avoided the employee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real down side to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. - p. 513

In Blanche's experience, the more a person believed love was a part of what they got from their employer, the more likely it was that the person was being asked to do things that only love could justify.

while ethics is fundamentally important and necessary, it is absolutely insufficient. It shows that the so-called soft stuff is hard, measurable, and impacts everything else in relationships, organizations, markets, and societies. Financial success comes from success in the marketplace, and success in the marketplace comes from success in the workplace. The heart and soul of all of this is trust.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees. The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

The leader's task in a crisis is to create a "contribution-focused" workplace. Tell prospective new hires, "Don't ask me for a job—bring me a solution.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

There's a reason I always look nice when I go to work." I kept a scowl on my face while she hustled me upstairs. "Because you'll get fired if you look like a slob?" "Because, my little grouch, it makes me feel better on the inside if I like how I look on the outside.

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax.

cuanto más arriba en el escalafón se encuentran los trabajadores, más propensos a engañar son.