{"quotes":[{"text":"But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.That was the military.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["bosses","business-leaders","careerism","company-culture","corporate-culture","human-nature","ladder-of-success","military","promotion","success","unfairness-of-life"],"id":85846,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. Sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","boss","bosses","deep","dictum","dictums","dump","dumping","dumpsite","dumpsites","dustbin","dustbins","epigram","epigrams","fridge","fridges","gnome","gnomes","hand-me-down","hand-me-downs","house","houses","humor","humour","insightful","made-me-think","maid","maids","make-you-think","master","masters","maxim","maxims","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","recycle","refrigerator","refrigerators","refuse","reuse","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","trashes","wardrobe","wardrobes","yard","yards"],"id":179253,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bosses","employment","exploitation","salary","work"],"id":222276,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.","author":"Oliver Gaspirtz","tags":["bosses","hooking-up","intimacy","love","love","mystery","proximity","relationship","relationships","romance"],"id":266695,"author_id":"Oliver+Gaspirtz"},{"text":"Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.","author":"Edward Conlon","tags":["bosses","cops","funny"],"id":287949,"author_id":"Edward+Conlon"},{"text":"Always be smarter than the people who hire you.","author":"Lena Horne","tags":["bosses","employers","employment","intelligence","jobs","work"],"id":291697,"author_id":"Lena+Horne"},{"text":"Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.","author":"Tina Fey","tags":["annoying-people","boss","bosses","hire","hiring","job","work"],"id":399491,"author_id":"Tina+Fey"},{"text":"I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["assholes","bad-boss","bosses","career","job","work"],"id":402835,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["bosses","employees","horror","humour","people-skills","technology","thriller","work"],"id":407426,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"It’s not difficult to put a girl in bottle; especially when she thinks, she is the boss.","author":"Aman Jassal","tags":["boss","bosses","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","girls-and-boys"],"id":423555,"author_id":"Aman+Jassal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}