Employer Quotes

“Which came first:

the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?”
― Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is rigged to allow your employer to willfully damage your health and disability is rigged to deny you your earned benefits when you have become too sick to work because your toxic employer damaged your health.”
― Steven Magee

“La situación actual se parece un poco al chiste que hacían los trabajadores de la antigua Unión Soviética: «¡Nosotros hacemos como que trabajamos y usted hace como que nos paga!»”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

“Instead of thinking of you working for Microsoft, think of how Microsoft can work for you.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“How is ignoring me working out for you?”
― Steven Magee

“See the healer, Sage. We have a big week ahead of us, and I can’t afford you falling dead on me.”

“I don’t think anyone’s ever died from a bruise on the ass, sir”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Out of all of my employers, the Ivy League was by far the worst.”
― Steven Magee

“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprise drug tested me during my employment.”
― Steven Magee

“The corporate controlled government is completely okay with your health being damaged by your employer, but shirks its responsibility to give you disability payments when you have become too sick to work.”
― Steven Magee

“If you are going to have an adventure around the world, it really helps if you can get it by working for international employers.”
― Steven Magee

“They are watching me...and I am watching them!”
― Steven Magee

“When a toxic employer damages your health, publicly hunt them down with science.”
― Steven Magee

“People go to school to get jobs when they should be learning to become job creators.”
― Richie Norton

“The slave cannot be made to defecate for the master.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The employer is ultimately interested in the growth of the business, not that of the employee.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you feel that your employer is putting your health at serious risk of COVID-19 infection, you should file an OSHA complaint and consider resigning your job.”
― Steven Magee

“The police are a reflection of their corrupt government employer.”
― Steven Magee

“Free speech works so much better when you do not have to worry about a toxic employer that may fire you for it.”
― Steven Magee

“Some jobs are not hard to get.
It is just that you do not have enough money or guts to pay for it, in cash or in kind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“If you are a sea level adapted human and your employer requires you to sleep at high altitude, you should change jobs as soon as possible.”
― Steven Magee

“At the job interview your qualification and degrees matter but on the job your abilities, effectiveness, and efficiency matter. On the basis of qualification on the paper one can get a job but not necessarily a person on the paper is the same person in action be, for a paper is written with a pen but a person with knowledge, experience, and wisdom. An employer sees what you can deliver not just what you carry on paper with you.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, US Staffing Industry 2020

“When you have developed ill health, you may find that there are past employer benefits you are entitled to.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“My employer never told me about Shift Work Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“When you go to a job interview, nobody is really interested in your background, but on what you can actually do and how committed you are in applying disciple and self-control to learn, improve your results, and improve the relationships and communication inside the company where you work. Therefore, having a PhD but no capacity to empathize or work on new methodologies means nothing, which is why so many people with PhDs work as supermarket cashiers and bartenders, or can't even find a job. Prepare your Curriculum in such a way that anyone can see in the front page all the things you have done and studied on your own, and add to the information the topics you actually studied and can apply. Your employer doesn't care if you went to university for it or learned from a laptop while in pajamas during a Sunday morning. He cares about what you can do to improve his results. If he raises your salary after you make him rich, great, and if not, you can use that opportunity as leverage to a better opportunity with a much higher salary. But always remember that, as an employee, your purpose is not to get a salary but to make your boss rich. The salary is a bonus you get from that intention. If you want to become rich yourself, you have to start your own company and work as many hours as your boss did and employ people who aren't willing to make you rich because they only care about their own salary, people who in many cases have diplomas but can't do anything useful. You will be surprised with how many useless people there are in the world, which is why interviews can last weeks and months before someone is selected for a position.”
― Dan Desmarques

“For some employers, there is no more glorious work than work done for free.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Employees who feel supported and appreciated are more likely to go above and beyond for their organization.”
― Dax Bamania

“I reported under-staffing and overworking to my electrical utility company employer every day. It remained unchanged until I left.”
― Steven Magee

“You cannot be an entrepreneur, unless you are a good provider. As a 9 to 5 person, your family is your responsibility, as an entrepreneur the families of your employees are your responsibility, as well as the welfare of your customers or clients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“A brand is a promise that you make to an audience. A personal brand is the promise you make to potential employers — what will you deliver if you are hired?”
― Aaron Basko

“UK professional astronomy worked differently from USA professional astronomy. When I told my UK employer I was going to work for another company, they did everything to help me transfer smoothly. When my USA employer found out I was leaving for another company, they took me into numerous surprise harassment meetings for my ‘voluntary’ resignation!”
― Steven Magee