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Quotes About Employment

As the saying goes, if your colleague tells you they've decided to quit, it was voluntary. But when someone else tells you they've decided to quit, it was mandatory.
~ Gene Kim
Safety is a precondition of work.
~ Gene Kim
I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.
~ Geoff Hoon
A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.
~ Ina May Gaskin
I want to have things clear,' I said. 'You're offering me a sinecure.' 'I'm not sure what that is,' said Madge, 'but I expect it's that.' 'A sinecure is when you get money for doing nothing,' I said. 'But isn't that exactly what you've always wanted?' said Madge.
~ Iris Murdoch
Politics shouldn't be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.
~ Irvine Welsh
Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw. - Ye should. You could go tae University. - Whit fir? Geoff had to think for a while. He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates. - It's a good social life, he said.
~ Irvine Welsh
If we jist be oorselves, n be honest, thill nivir gie either ay us the fuckin joab.
~ Irvine Welsh
The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.
~ Isaac Asimov
nadie se hace rico en un empleo ni invirtiendo con prudencia; el futuro es de los audaces.
~ Isabel Allende
The real minimum wage is zero.
~ Thomas Sowell
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.
~ Chirlane McCray
Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.
~ Esther McVey
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
~ Jennifer Granholm
In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
~ Gary Johnson
A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.
~ Annalee Newitz
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
~ Gary Johnson
Patient zero feels great and is back to work.
~ Liz Parrish
During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.
~ Rebecca Traister
The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District.
~ Tony Cardenas
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
~ Tom Hayden