Quotes About Employment

about whether the person could safely be kept on the job, and about how things might be turned around.

An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.

I would have to think on a nice clean job. I don't want to think. Not their way. It will have to be their way, no matter where I go. I want a job where I won't have to think.

Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought and- say, what are you laughing at?

Literally, my job consisted of getting loaded, lounging, partying, working out, and using the trucks as motel rooms.

look'n for a job? this is when the truck driver asks joad what he is doing and i think it indecates that this story revolves around a very hard time

By 1952 there were two million more working wives than there had been at the height of World War II.

There were fewer female physicians in 1930 than at the start of the 1920s, and women were a smaller proportion of the college population.

Twenty-six American states passed laws explicitly prohibiting or limiting the employment of married women in various fields. By 1940 more than three-quarters of the school systems in the United States refused to hire married women as teachers.9

This was not just an American phenomenon. A survey of twenty-one industrial countries reported that in the 1970s and 1980s female employment rose twice or even three times as fast as the growth in total employment. In almost every case, married women accounted for the majority of the increase in women's workforce participation.35

I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.

Dangerously close to having to work for a living.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

due to a change in circumstances I was very sorry but I wouldn't be able to take the job.

What else could I say? It was a job. Progress of sorts.

I'm not employed for what I do,' Nathan explained. 'I'm employed for what I can do.

There are no bloody jobs, Josie. You know that as well as I do. We're in the middle of a bloody recession.

I sat there, as my parents discussed what other jobs my limited qualifications might entitle me to.

I'm not employed by you. I'm employed by your mother. And unless she tells me she doesn't want me here any more I'm staying. Not because I particularly care about you, or like this stupid job or want to change your life one way or another, but because I need the money. Okay? I really need the money.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

One of the things about a degree in philosophy and theology is that it makes you almost completely unemployable.

I'd hire an accountant or lawyer with an anxiety disorder over one without any day of the week.

Between 2003 and 2013, health insurance premiums for employer-provided health benefits rose by 73 percent—and workers' share of that increase was 93 percent. Deductibles more than doubled.

Moments after his death, an event he had failed to notice, Gordon Small sought new employment