Quotes About Employment

94 percent of Americans agree that "people who work full-time should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

nearly one-fifth of all homeless people (in twenty-nine cities across the nation) are employed in full-or part-time jobs.

La gran mayoría de los oficinistas despedidos se tragaron el sapo, como se suele decir, y aceptaron que les dieran pensamiento positivo en vez de la nómina mensual y la seguridad de antes. No tomaron las calles, no forzaron ningún cambio en la política, no se presentaron en su ex oficina con una pistola.

Drug Testing: A Bad Investment.

The shocking thing is that the majority of American workers, about 60 percent, earn less than $14 an hour.

Blanche stared at Emmeline's door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she'd tried over the years.

Well, the club is open until three in the morning and she works every day. So, by the time she gets home…" "I get the picture," I said. Though in fact, it was a little hard to imagine Harry with an attachment that didn't have an Ethernet cable and a mouse. He was an introverted, socially stunted guy, with no contacts I knew of outside of his day job, which he kept at arm's length in any event, and me. Conditions that had always made him useful.

If we design workplaces that permit people to find meaning in their work, we will be designing a human nature that values work

Miedo omnipresente. La recesión económica provoca una recesión psicológica. Hay miedo a perder el empleo, los ahorros para la jubilación e incluso la casa. La presión se acumula y acaba pasando factura. Precisamente cuando más centrados y comprometidos necesita a los suyos, más descentrados y menos comprometidos están.

Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

American leaders sat by watching as vast sectors of their heavy industry hemorrhaged and ultimately fled offshore. Factories that didn't leave closed down. Some politicians actually assisted these industries

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

What sort of signal does a college diploma send to a potential employer? That its holder is willing and able to complete all sorts of drawn-out, convoluted tasks.

These budding drug lords bumped up against an immutable law of labor: when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills.

cuando existe una gran cantidad de gente dispuesta a realizar un trabajo y capaz de hacerlo, por lo general éste no está bien remunerado. Ése es uno de los cuatro factores significativos que determinan un salario. Los otros tres son los conocimientos especializados que requiere un trabajo, lo desagradable que sea y la demanda de servicios que satisface.

when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills.

Why has the prostitute's wage fallen so far? Because

The final word on the political non-implications of group differences must go to Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

The combination of a shorter workweek, more paid time off, and a longer retirement means that the fraction of a person's life that is taken up by work has fallen by a quarter just since 1960.

It makes little sense to make tens of millions of poor Americans pay more for clothing to save tens of thousands of jobs in the apparel industry.

For every job lost to automation, a new one will materialize that we cannot anticipate: he unemployed forklift operators will retrain as tattoo removal technicians and video game costume designers and social media content moderators and pet psychiatrists.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.