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Quotes About Supervisors

Taft-Hartley had excluded foremen and supervisors from labor-law coverage, which made workplace unity more difficult because fewer new jobs were blue-collar in character and more positions in the emerging service fields were designated as supervisory, meaning
~ Philip Dray
Supervisors who bully employees reveal their lack of competence in reasoning.
~ Darrell Urban Black
Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.
~ David Graeber
The dollar sign is exalted above the health sign," said Hassler, referring to the influence of the merchants on the supervisors' decision.73
~ Alfred W. Crosby
A joy-filled workplace gives people the freedom to use their talents and skills for the benefit of society, without being crushed or controlled by autocratic supervisors.
~ Dennis W. Bakke
We know when we are misemployed. We know when our talents and efforts are being misappropriated. What we don't know is how open our supervisors are to hearing about it. As a result of this assignment we made some significant changes that brought about better alignment for the entire staff. Furthermore, we stumbled upon a new tool by which to uncover what our people were thinking and feeling.
~ Andy Stanley
Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?
~ Robert D. Keppel
I do," said Louis. "Before I can let you play with them, I have to clean them and pump them up with the precise amount of air as specified by POOPS." "POOPS?" asked Eric Ovens. "The Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors," explained Louis. He showed them the POOPS handbook.
~ Louis Sachar
We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
~ Oscar Munoz
Also outside of work should be the relationships that offer the safe harbor from the emotional storms created by your sensitivity. Don't look for that among your colleagues, and especially not from your supervisors. You're just too much for them to handle, and they may decide there's "something wrong with you.
~ Elaine N. Aron
At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was kind of a daunting challenge.
~ Helene D. Gayle
trial. That's bad for business in the PD's office. The supervisors are paid for disposing of
~ Sheldon Siegel
WHAT'S THE ONE thing that most affects how much people enjoy their jobs? First and foremost, people thrive when they feel appreciated by their supervisors and colleagues—and that means they sense the appreciation is heartfelt and authentic.
~ Gary Chapman
Workers are basically supervisors of machines.
~ David Autor
The adult supervisors had zero psychic sensitivity and, since they were mortally afraid of going anywhere near an actual Visitor, never ventured far into a haunted zone. Instead, they hung around on the sidelines, being old and useless, and shouting orders that were utterly out of sync with whatever was going on.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Nowadays, [the ruler] relies on many officials and numerous clerks; to monitor them he establishes assistants and supervisors. Assistants are installed and supervisors are established to prohibit [officials] from pursuing [personal] profit; yet assistants and supervisors also seek profit, so how they will able to prohibit each other?
~ Shang Yang
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
~ Werner Herzog
All of them, street cops and supervisors, were now smothered in paperwork designed to prove that they were "reforming" a police force of more than ninety-five hundred souls who ostensibly needed reforming because of the actions of half a dozen convicted cops from both incidents combined.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
I have always had the suspicion that officers assigned to front desk duty were chosen by cunning supervisors because of their skills in obfuscation and disinformation.
~ Michael Connelly
Quis costodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?)
~ Juvenal
As a former nine-year member of the Board of Supervisors and nine-year mayor, I know firsthand the merits of strong zoning laws. They protect residential areas so they can support families and be free of commercial activities that are not related to neighborhood needs.
~ Dianne Feinstein
We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators.
~ Janet Yellen
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
~ Gary Hamel
My problem is with supervisors who bullshit me and expect loyalty in return. The essence of loyalty is reciprocity. If you're loyal to me, I'll be loyal to you. Bullshit me, and I'll bullshit you. That's the contract.
~ Nelson DeMille