subordinate behavior Quotes

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.