Workplace Poems

Racism in the Workplace

Racism in the Workplace**

Racism is a prevalent issue within workplace environments, often manifesting in the interactions among employees. Given that individuals spend a significant portion of their day—typically six to seven hours or more—at work, the interactions with colleagues frequently surpass those with family members. At my facility, which comprises approximately 500 to 600 employees

The Letter They Never Answered

To those who should have heard my plea—
I write not bitter, but silently.
In shadows where the messages fade,
I found myself in silence laid.

It started with a hopeful thread,
A truth that whispered, softly said,
To stir the waters, call a friend—
But stillness echoed to no end.

No ripples came, no words replied,
Just empty space where trust had died.
“You

Workplace Romance

I’ve seen much
I didn’t tell
I was a fellow worker
Invisible within the mist
But the other romance half
That I couldn’t see 
Was destined with opportunity
While the workplace 
Had those that saw
A peck, A touch 
The silly stuff
The other half
With residential quarters
Was serious stuff
With no one to tell
A long kiss
A touch, In as much
When workplace romance
Was a fantasy
Workplace

Workplace Beauty

True workplace beauty resides not in grand corner offices
Or sleek designer furniture that impresses.
Nor is it found in trendy open floor plans,
Or state-of-the-art gadgets in employees' hands.

It doesn't dwell in fancy lobbies with marble floors,
Or in boardrooms behind imposing doors.
It's not confined to Silicon Valley's sprawling campuses,
Or Wall Street's towering glass fortresses.

For workplace beauty knows

Ride In the Subway

Drove for thirty minutes to Subway Station, 
Took a train for forty minutes, 
Got into another for only ten minutes, 
reached Queen's Park.
Mornings are hectic, 
found a seat beside the window, 
looked at all the faces around. 

It was an university-bound train, 
many young faces, fashionable jeans, 
wearing T-shirts with interesting quotes - from "

I Am a Night Owl

I am A Night Owl
By: Noel N. Villarosa
June 4, 2022

Staring long at the laptop
My workplace is quiet
Active and mentally tip top
I am an owl that flies at night

Night sorting and engaging that way
Was a man deep in his thinking
Working with a good employer that will stay
Energy peaks naturally in the evening

With refreshed curious eyes
I cast

I Outfoxed Them

They probably thought the elders would go quietly.
Everyone over fifty got a pink slip on the same week.
But one was not enough. We also received two emails.
And a registered letter, letting us know we were gone.

This would be our last month. We were terminated.
I attended a union meeting.
Exchanged phone numbers with two other seasoned women.
I

Business As Usual

Our boss employed a receptionist
Whose beauty we could not compare
Double D cups woke up the knights
As pheromones surged through the air

Her chair is usually empty
Excepting this handwritten note:
"I have just stepped out for the male"
Exactly as written I quote

Workplace Culture Questions

Quote from Hugh Prather:  "Most of the conversations I hear 
are carried on as if there really were such a thing as an answer
and as if the people present were actually in possession of it."

Shouldn't we all adopt
some sort of "busy" pretext,
display fake fronts intended
to suggest determined aims
are being seriously pursued?

Wouldn't everyone believe
that we

In My Workplace

I’ve got much pressure when I entered the office
On my first day of work it’s really hard to please

To bring accord is part of my job depiction
Got to do this as part of team’s expectation

Colleagues have their own personal differences
Should cope so I’ll not be broken into pieces

How blessed I am to have such kind

Workplace Harassment

Workplace harassment is rife, alive and well, 
Occurring too often in this pseudo company.
Derogatory, condescending words roared, inches from your face, 
Sounding like a battlesque symphony.

People in charge making foolish demands,
Then usurping workers places, employing visible stealth.
Not being productive, effective or profitable, 
To any of the workers, or for the companies health.

Forcing workers to feel

A Workplace Prayer

	
A Workplace Prayer
	Written: by Tom Wright
	1998
	
	Lord, as we gather
	at our places of work each day.
	Let us do our tasks, with others,
	in one accord we pray.
	
	If it be day or dark of night
	let us be found.
	At counter, desk, or mundane task
	or on appointed round.
	
	As you forever watch our lives
	Lord, keep us humble.
	Forgiving us if because of

Last Year At My Workplace

There were meadows free to the far,            
Clean, green and quiet calm.
Pebbles and stones, scattered,
As in the blue sky’s stars’ view.

On a remote-side grew wild thorns high,
Played the bees and b‘flies and I;
And the good dog passing by had watched us
On his hurried walk
From

Fashion Plate In the Workplace

It's a celebration of life,
It's a celebration of self,
An inner spirit and style,
expressed thru blazes of color.
Daring to be an original,
in a gallery of the commonplace.

Sabotage At the Workplace

the worker bees buzz &
the management, the authority figures,
crunch down the boots 
on the backs of us all
tossing crumbs & wanting
better production, faster pace,
silence (no talking, only work) &
for us all to be company whores
dedicated to the cause of
profit for the few who sit atop the pyramid of
this specific little corporate tyranny---
such is the nature

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