Office Quotes

“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.”
― Tom Holt, Barking

“I strolled into a downtown parking garage, wearing a black pantsuit and matching heels. I’d pulled my dark, chocolate-brown hair up into a high, sleek ponytail, while black glasses with clear lenses covered my cold
gray eyes. I looked like just another corporate office drone, right down to the enormous black handbag I carried.”
― Jennifer Estep, Widow's Web

“... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.
They show up when they want.
They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.
They just have to get their work done.

How they do it ?
When they do it ?
Where they do it ?
It's totally up to them.

Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.


What happens ... ?

Almost across the board !
- Productivity goes up
- Worker Engagement goes up
- Worker Satisfaction goes up
- Turnovers goes down


- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -
these are the building blocks of new way of doing things."
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*ROWE: results-only work environment”
― Daniel Pink

“If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.”
― George Huang, Swimming with Sharks

“And does Alan have a last name?" I asked.
"Probably," said Curtis, "but we have a 'if you have to ask, you don't need to know because I don't want to friend you on Facebook' policy.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“There will be others, many others. You’ll try desperately to digest a single word through the acronym-laden gibberish, while beginning to wonder what the point of all this is, and also why you didn’t feel that staple you just sent into your thigh. You usually do. You’ll wonder what your company even does. After six years, you have no idea what an information system is, do you? Maybe you should ask. Maybe that’s how this ends. You’ll imagine how poetic it would be to simply unmute yourself and say, “Sorry to interrupt, guys, but what’s an information system?”

Still, your mind will drift further, envisioning how much more tolerable this call would be if you could just slowly masturbate during it. So you do. You masturbate during it. And it’s beautiful. Masturbating, invisible within your three-walled fortress. Invisible… invisible… practically invisible.”
― Colin Nissan

“Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Choose your company the way you choose your life partner; after all, you spend more time in the company than with your life partner”
― Ravi Kapilavai

“If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee!”
― Himmilicious

“Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result”
― Vivek Thangaswamy

“Worst thing can happen in work place is, to work with less knowledge, pretending to be good, taking others creditability, or in simple words ‘Stupid Office Politicians’.”
― Vivek Thangaswamy

“Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.”
― Ali Sheikh, Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy