Quotes About Employment

Let's start with working longer. Many of us are healthier and have less physically demanding jobs than our parents and grandparents. And we are living much longer. So stretching out our work lives is a sensible option. And the payoff is eye-popping! Individuals who delay receiving Social Security benefits from 62 to 70 increase their monthly benefits by a full 76 percent. Government

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care. Mr. Mell was ill-used. 'Who has ill-used him, you girl?' said Steerforth. 'Why, you have,' returned Traddles. 'What have I done?' said Steerforth. 'What have you done?' retorted Traddles. 'Hurt his feelings, and lost him his situation.

it's not personal; it's professional: only professional.

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

EDITOR... A person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Unemployed.

The money's no better in retirement but the hours are!

Working without safety is a dead-end job.

Herman Melville, "Bartleby"

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

The ship's officers were in a substantially higher bracket. First Officer Warms earned $180 a month; Captain Wilmott, the princely sum of $300 a month. Chief Engineer Eban Abbott's paycheck was $220 a month. For that salary Abbott was expected to keep the engines running smoothly, and play his part in entertaining the passengers, particularly the women on board.

The Radiomarine Corporation's relationship with shipping lines was impersonal: it was essentially a powerful employment agency supplying specialist staff. A ship was forced to accept a radio operator assigned by the corporation. The corporation was responsible for checking a radioman's qualifications, but no check was ever made into a man's background.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you're trying to sell.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

La suerte se regala todos los días a las cinco de la mañana en el trabajo".

Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it—and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!

Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

Some employers banned drinking on the job and tried even to forbid their workers to drink off the job. For men who considered their thrice-daily tipple a right, this was another mark of slavery.

on the carpet stood a new pair of Dr. Martens boots. Those, he guessed, would be his uniform for the duration of his employment with The Quarry Company.

If you are lucky you will find something you love doing, if you're really lucky you'll find someone to pay you to do it

And oddly enough, some of the stuff he said about technology I think is actually true. These military robots they're starting to build really are scary. "And this self-driving smartcar idea? Maybe it'll make some things cheaper, but won't it also put every truck driver and cabbie and FedEx and UPS worker in the world out of work? For what? So college kids can drink and drive safely? That you can do something amazing is amazing, but when is it too much?