Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it's one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: 'My door is always open.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
My door is open.
I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.
I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.