Staff Quotes

“Employees aren't inanimate objects that can just be moved around like bricks. They're people with emotions and goals and comittments and more. They should be treated like stakeholders, because they are.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“As a manager in the Ivy League, I discovered that the upper management team were seriously undermining my ability to manage my own staff. It was so bad that I eventually left. I now advise people not to work for the Ivy League.”
― Steven Magee

“The upper management’s inability to deal with problem employees is not my problem.”
― Steven Magee

“It took less than a year from first detection of COVID-19 for it to rampage through the White House staff and the President of the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump’s COVID-19 infected staff are probably wondering if ‘China Virus’ is going to maim or kill them.”
― Steven Magee

“I avoid traveling on budget airlines.”
― Steven Magee

“If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can't see you, but it can crush you. And if that's the working world, then I don't want to be a part of it.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“After informing the management team at Dartmouth College that I was keeping daily records of the behavioral problems I was observing in all staff that I supervised, they insisted those records be destroyed.”
― Steven Magee

“Trying to get Dartmouth College to acknowledge the behavioral problems in all staff that I supervised got me a final warning of dismissal, when no previous warnings had been received.”
― Steven Magee

“When reporting behavioral problems in all staff to the upper management team, expect them to engage in a cover up at your expense.”
― Steven Magee

“The people most at harm from satellite radiation are airline staff followed by those at high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee

“When those who truly pushed the box have no say in which direction the box goes, our home is left with one of the most common problems in the known world.

With even the boxes, scratching their heads.”
― Monaristw

“It is very hard to manage staff when you are suffering from the toxic effects of workplace mercury poisoning.”
― Steven Magee

“There was no monitoring of astronomy staff for central sleep apnea, even when we would sleep at high altitude.”
― Steven Magee

“A great leader unlocks people's potential to become better”
― Dax Bamania

“Isabella Janke, If you are kind to your junior staff they will never let you down.”
― Isabella Janke

“Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“I routinely observed health symptoms in high altitude staff that matched oxygen enrichment and oxygen depletion while working in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“How hazardous are high powered industrial sodium LASER exposures to night shift summit staff working at very high altitudes across their full lifespan?”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Professional astronomy summit staff are known to die in accidents.”
― Steven Magee

“I requested more staff to help me troubleshoot the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm, but I was a lone worker for the duration of my time there.”
― Steven Magee

“The next time I pass through the high altitude Denver International Airport in Colorado, I will be wearing a recording body camera for my own personal protection! The staff there are bizarre!!!”
― Steven Magee

“It seems Elon Musk follows a policy of halving the staff and making the remaining staff work twice as many hours in companies he acquires!”
― Steven Magee

“I study high altitude effects on humans. Denver International Airport (DIA) is at high altitude and I have personally witnessed behavioral problems in their staff.”
― Steven Magee

“After the horrendous way the high altitude Denver International Airport staff treated me on my vacation, it is unlikely I will ever go to Colorado again!”
― Steven Magee

“I had an unfortunate encounter with mean staff at the high altitude Denver International Airport that ruined my vacation and I now avoid Colorado.”
― Steven Magee

“How do you keep a business running that you cannot staff due to a labor shortage?”
― Steven Magee

“Operational art is what military staffs do to support tactics and strategy.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

“General staff officer candidates were chosen from the regular army's officer corps to take a rigorous examination. If they passed, they were then sent to the academy system for years of educational studies. If they passed that, they were then full general-staff officers and assigned and administered not by the regular army, but by the general staff itself.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

“If you aren't hiring, the only way for your business to grow is for your people to grow.”
― Fresia Jackson