A Toxic Work Environment Quotes & Sayings

There is plenty of research and data clearly demonstrating that while employees may choose to join an organization because of the brand, benefits, and other perceived rewards, they invariably choose to leave an organization because of their relationship with their immediate supervisor. I would also suggest that people choose to leave when they experience a toxic work environment and when they do not have a strong relationship (an Ally) among their peers. Employees, especially talented high performers, always have a — Morag Barrett

The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel. — Ted Gup

Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave. — Charles Bukowski

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do. — Mark T Bertolini

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on. — James Frey

But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-earth right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?
Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.' — Mary Matalin