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Quotes About Supervisors

My problem is with supervisors who bullshit me and expect loyalty in return.
~ Nelson DeMille
Many curmudgeons believe that a malady afflicts many of today's twenty-somethings: their sense of entitlement. It is their impression that too many of you think doing routine office tasks is beneath you, and your supervisors are insufficiently sensitive to your needs. Curmudgeons are also likely to think that you have a higher opinion of your abilities than your performance warrants.
~ Charles Murray
the abilities that distinguish the outstanding supervisors in technical fields are not technical, but rather relate to handling people.14 So to a degree, experience and expertise, like IQ, matter—but there is much more to the story when it comes to excellence.
~ Daniel Goleman
quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers.
~ W. Edwards Deming
bad press. And there is really no way Noose can force the county to pay more than a thousand bucks. If the supervisors dig in, and they will, we're screwed." She nodded as if she understood, took another sip, and eventually said, "Lovely.
~ John Grisham
Their neighbors in Penn Villas are strangers, transients – accountants, salesmen, supervisors, adjusters – people whose lives to them are passing can and the shouts of unseen children.
~ John Updike
in truth, the engaged culture lives and dies in the moment-to-moment decisions and behaviors of supervisors and managers. So it only stands to reason that engagement can be born anywhere inside the company.
~ Unknown
Target Four seemed shocked. "SecUnits aren't supposed to talk back," Target Five said weakly. Tell me about it. "Cargo ship crews aren't supposed to take Port Authority supervisors as hostages, but here we all are.
~ Martha Wells
And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
~ 2 Kings 22:5
And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
~ 2 Kings 22:9
They put it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work of the house of the LORD, who in turn gave it to the workmen restoring and repairing the house of the LORD.
~ 2 Chronicles 34:10
They have paid out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have put it into the hands of the supervisors and workers.”
~ 2 Chronicles 34:17