Workplace Issues Quotes

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

The first problem is too many workers. The second problem is having fools and crooks as managers.

Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare - everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to working families, these are the issues they raise... We have over 43 million Americans who don't have a single day of sick leave, but everybody gets sick. Everybody's children get sick.

A lot of people are liars who I work with; that's a shame.

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

I worked with guys in Japan that were champions and they came over here for six months or a year and they treated them like garbage.

In our industry, everything is taken lightly. Guys say so many things, and if you react to them, they go, like,'We are kidding.' Things like 'You are looking hot sexy' are common.

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.