Quotes About Employment

Paradoxical as it may seem, collective bargaining is not losing ground in the United States because unions are less attractive, but unions are less attractive because collective bargaining is losing ground.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

How many times you figure on firing me?" Pat Rin yos'Phelium sighed. "Refresh my memory, Mr. McFarland. How many times have I succeeded in firing you thus far?

Youths out of school and without jobs is considered an economic issue but it's also social and security issue.

If you want to hire someone motivated to perform the job at hand, determine whether the job is mainly goal-oriented or is mainly about troubleshooting. Do you need someone who is excited about working toward goals, or someone who delights in solving crises?

So what's going on?" Livy asked after spitting out a bit more blood. "Got a job for you." "Will I be whoring?" "Not this time. I'm sorry." "You know how I love to whore," Livy stated with that flat tone that freaked people out, because no one ever knew whether she was joking or not.

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

The pay worked out to about $1,000 a year—some five to ten times the earnings of the average unskilled laborer—with summers off. The job was immoral, and ugly to be sure, but probably less unpleasant than it sounds.

For two people so firmly distanced by class and employment structure, Beaumont and St. Martin inhabited a relationship that could be oddly, intensely intimate. "On applying the tongue to the mucous coat of the stomach, in its empty, unirritated state, no acid taste can be perceived.

ask him about Fletcherizing. "You're going to spend all day just having breakfast. You will lose your job!

The pay worked out to about $1,000 a year—some five to ten times the earnings of the average unskilled laborer—with summers off.