Quotes About Employment

we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead.

Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing.

Caroline is the lady who cooks for me. Incidentally she is the wife of my gardener. What kind of a wife she makes I do not know, but she is an excellent cook. James, on the other hand, is not a good gardener—but I support him in idleness and give him the lodge to live in solely on account of Caroline's cooking.

Always going off somewhere. Dams, you know. I'm not swearing, my dear," he assured his wife. "I mean jobs to do with the building of dams, or else it's oil or pipelines or something like that.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that bar code scanners at checkout counters increased the speed that cashiers could ring up payments by 30 percent and reduced labor requirements of cashiers and baggers by 10 to 15 percent.

Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.

I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers.

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.