Workplace Hierarchy Quotes

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Our most important, and sometimes most severe, judges are our subordinates.

Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

People always say it is carefree leaving officialdom, but actually they do want to keep the position.

There are no employees without employers.

... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.