#boss

I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth of a human being-- the gushing entry into the great blue world of a whole new person-- than you can the scheduling of a few line cooks in your operation. ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#boss #childbirth #humor #motherhood #scheduling

Devereaux is going with our pitch.” “Hey, that’s just great,” I said superperkily. “Wendell’s or mine?” “Yours.” “But you want to fire me. So fire me.” “We can’t fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, ‘a great kid, very courageous’ and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you had believability.” “That’s too bad.” “Why? You’re not quitting!” I thought about it. “Not if you don’t want me to. Do you?” Go on, say it. 298 ♥elavanilla♥ “No.” “No what?” “No, we don’t want you to quit.” “Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it.” Ariella swallowed. “Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can’t green-light charcoal suits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors.” “Charcoal suits or I’m gone.” “Orange.” “Charcoal.” “Orange.” “Charcoal.” “Okay, charcoal.” It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don’t care whether you have it or not. “Right,” I said. “I’m giving myself the rest of the day off. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#inspiration #job #power #promotion #courage

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips. ↗

— Charles A. Beckwith

#decided #i #lips #men #our

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ↗

— Doug Larson

#add #boss #duties #impossible #means

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs. ↗

— James Levine

#because #boss #employees #just #just because

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#adhering #boss #decide #got #know

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#children #conference #dad #husband #paying

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#both #done #experience #get #good

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#build #houses #like #mechanic #office

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#america #anyone #asian #boss #certain