402 Quotes About Office

Your haters will resort to desk-politics, desk-jockeying and desk-envy as a result of your good behavior at work. It makes them look bad. Do good anyway.

If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life.

The Joel Test1. Do you use source control?2. Can you make a build in one step?3. Do you make daily builds?4. Do you have a bug database?5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?7. Do you have a spec?8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?10. Do you have testers?11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

Shh! It happens. Sh!it happens.

If I were emperor, king, or prince in a campaign against the Turk, I would exhort my bishops and priests to stay at home and mind the duties of their office, praying, fasting, saying mass, preaching, and caring for the poor, as not only Holy Scripture, but their own canon law teaches and requires.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

The difference between short-term benefits and long-term benefits are like building a nice office versus building a brand like Coca Cola.