Workplace Tension Quotes

There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

I'm extremely hard to work with.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

There's two or three managers I can't stand. I detest them and they know that.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

I didn't have any friends when I was at Radio 1. I didn't hang out with anyone and I didn't hang around after work. The other DJs hated me because first I was given the 'Breakfast Show,' and then I got on television.

You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

I hate when people talk about certain guys and say they can't work together.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

I respect Mark Hughes and what he's done for me but I heard some things when he was talking about me and they were not good things.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?