Sentences with phrase «old boss of»

Just the other week, I had breakfast with an old boss of mine who moved on to do different things last year.
As an old boss of mine used to say when questioned about a pay raise, «David, it's better than a kick in the ass.»
As a clever old boss of mine once said, «A banks liabilities are its assets, and its assets are its liabilities.»
As an old boss of mine used to say, «liquidity is a «fraidy cat.»
I have wanted a Nissan Murano since 2009 when an old boss of mine purchased a new one!
He was reportedly one of the more flamboyant characters of the industry with a fiery temperament, courting other strong personalities like director Michael Winner and actors Shelley Winters and Charles Bronson, who regarded him as akin to the old bosses of the studio system.

Not exact matches

«This is usually not your boss, but someone in your organisation, perhaps of a different generation, a little bit older than you, who's knows the ropes and who knows what's appropriate,» Pollak said.
Cavens, a 40 - year - old father of two, founded the company in 2009 with Mark Vadon, his former boss at the online diamond seller Blue Nile.
The bad old days of bosses giving orders and employees blindly following fortunately are mostly behind us.
As more and more young folks develop start - up dreams and start their own businesses, the inevitable result will be more and more young bosses, many of whom are supervising folks much older and more experienced then themselves.
«This man is going to be the death of me,» Abedin, who first worked for Clinton as a 19 - year - old intern in the 1990s, said as her boss hugged her.
One of my old bosses started every management meeting by having every supervisor share two examples of employees they recognized or praised that day.
As for that old boss, the NLRB is an obligation he may or may not pay, just one more piece of collateral damage left behind in Gillman's trail of (creative?)
«If you see [on LinkedIn] that your old boss knows a VP at a company you'd like to work in, dial him and say something to the effect of, «Bill, it's been too long.
Former sheriff's deputies in Virginia brought a lawsuit against their old boss, claiming he had fired them because they had liked the Facebook campaign page of his opponent in the upcoming election.
They've got all the bitterness and wrath of a plain old aggressive boss, but they're much subtler, and therefore harder to deal with.
«Experienced leaders are more likely to overestimate their abilities,» writes Eurich, «Similarly, older managers tend to misjudge their performance relative to their boss's ratings of them far more than their younger peers do.»
The appeal is obvious — robot bosses can automatically and with a high degree of accuracy accomplish exponentially more than those of us constrained by fallible old meat brains.
I'm not alone: A 2014 LinkedIn study found 67 % of millennials — double the rate of our older counterparts — liked to share personal details with co-workers, including bosses.
The move had the air of the old exchange between boss and worker:...
These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.
There's potential here for a political edge, too, one that was absent from the old series (that absence is fine, for the record, but it is worth thinking about a version of The Office that plays with more than just boss / employee relationships).
You know that yahweh is the semitic name of ADAD the Sumerian God of Thunder, so if you're referring to the old tesament's version of the «one true god» it's Adad the god of Thunder and his boss was Enlil who's boss, the ONE TRUE GOD, is AN.
He reported that he and his boss talked theology almost every day over lunch, and that his boss, although good and knowledgeable Christian, had distressing antinomian tendencies due to his neglect of the moral law of the Old Testament.
The old - school Irish Catholic party boss and New Deal political tactician famously said that the Democratic party had been taken over «by the cast of Hair.»
When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.
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Newly appointed Bluebirds boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer clearly has connections at Old Trafford following his time as both a player and coach at the Premier League title holders and the addition of this duo will certainly go some way to strengthening his Cardiff City squad as he looks to pull the club away from the drop zone.
Instead The Mirror reports that the Sunderland boss chose to stick the boot in on his old touchline rival Arsene Wenger by suggesting that the trophy should really have been coming Arsenal's way in May after the struggles of Man City, Chelsea and Man United opened the door.
The former Southampton boss will then look to make back the rest of his money by allowing Rose to make a # 6m switch to Hull, with Steve Bruce's side having recently revived their interest in the 24 - year - old defender, who can also play on the wing.
Van Gaal knows tough tackling centre - back Vlaar well from his time in charge of the Netherlands, indeed the 29 year old former Feyenoord man was a pivotal member of his 2014 World Cup finals squad, and the Man United boss feels he urgently needs to strengthen his leaky defence.
The boss will want to get his new player settled in as much as possible before we take on Cech's former club Chelsea in the Community Shield and I am sure that the 33 - year old will be keen to impress and prove to his former team mates and employers, as well as the rest of the football world, that there is still a lot to come from him.
Something is not right about this sentence «Manchester City legend Patrick Vieira has put his # 2.2 million Cheshire mansion up for sale — as rumours circulate that he could be one of the favourites to replace his old boss Arsène Wenger.»
The 23 - year - old has impressed Gunners boss Arsene Wenger with a number of classy displays, including three goals and 19 assists, in Ligue 1 last season.
The arrival of Rafa Benitez as the new manager of the Spanish giants may impact on Benzema's standing as Goal.com believe that the former Liverpool boss is ready to use Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in central roles, which could lead to the 27 - year - old being forced out of the Real Madrid starting eleven.
The 27 - year - old's previous injury occurred as a result of burnout, with the Gunners boss choosing to ignore repeated calls for the player to be rested.
The 28 - year - old winger is set to find himself on the periphery at Eastlands following an influx of players at the club this summer, and Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson is contemplating a # 7 million move for the international.
Loyalty is an old fashioned word I know, but if you «re vying for the top job you «ve got to convince the boss of your loyalty even if it is «bullshit `.
CaughtOffside understands that Old Trafford boss Louis van Gaal had pushed chief executive Ed Woodward to pull out all the stops to land the highly rated attacking midfielder with the Premier League side keen to bring a «Marquee» signing to act as a real statement of intent.
The 28 - year - old was linked with a move to the Emirates Stadium on transfer deadline day earlier this month as Gunners boss Arsene Wenger was reportedly in the French capital with hopes of sealing a # 45million deal for the Uruguayan international.
Even the title I have put at the top of this post could be seen as a bit on the harsh side on the 28 - year old, as he scored 19 goals for the Gunners last season, at a ratio of just better than one every other game, and he already has three for the new season so far, despite being well down the pecking order of forward players available to the boss.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers spoke to Hodgson ahead of the matches to ask him not to include Sturridge as the 25 - year - old continues to recover from a thigh injury last time he was on international duty.
There are other Arsenal rumours this morning that the talks have been delayed because of the projected length of the contract, but whatever the reason, the England boss Roy Hodgson is not happy about it, and doesn't want the 29 year - old distracted during the competition.
The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.
The 23 - year - old Moroccan midfielder also insisted he plans to defy boss Harry Redknapp by going to the Africa Cup of Nations.
Arsene Wenger had opted to consign the 23 year old England international to he bench until he agrees to a new deal on the terms set out by the North London side but a run of great form saw the Gunners boss change his stance.
The 19 year old Serbian international is considered one of the hottest prospects in European football and the Partizan Belgrade starlet is apparently being convinced about a move to Stamford Bridge by both Branislav Ivanovic, his fellow countryman, and Avram Grant, his former boss.
United boss Louis van Gaal then handed the forward a full debut in their disappointing Champions League defeat at the hands of PSV Eindhoven in midweek due to the absence of captain Wayne Rooney, however, the 19 - year - old struggled with the task of leading the line on his own.
However, the report claims that Bakkali is dead set on working with the Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, probably because of how well the old Eden Hazard has done in the last two seasons.
Sam Allardyce clearly meant business having already failed in two other bids for the former Gillingham man and the 26 year old is the latest in a string of very capable signings the Hammers boss has brought in this summer.
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