Quotes About Employment

Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash, the number of human bank tellers employed in the United States has roughly doubled, from about a quarter of a million to a half a million.

In 1972, there was still a New York City law prohibiting women there from 'furnishing refreshments to the audience or spectators at any place of public amusement.' That's right: Until the law was repealed in 1977, it was technically illegal for women to work as popcorn vendors in Madison Square Garden.

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

Think twice before you employ members of your own family and never assume that anyone will pay their debts.

One study of relatively highly paid contractors in Silicon Valley found that free agents didn't really feel free because of the need to be always searching for their next gig and therefore frequently took less leisure time than regular employees.

Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger found that the proportion of people working in alternative work arrangements had increased some 50 percent in the ten years from 2005 to 2015. Moreover, "94 percent of the net employment growth in the US economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements."4

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Turns out, half of all millennials have at least occasional side hustles.

Women employees were reportedly hired for their personal attractions rather than their skills, and several young ladies claimed that they were refused employment until they yielded to the passionate embraces of the superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

My parents aren't cruel to them. They pay them well. It's more that they treat them like they're pets.

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two)

It's quite a thing when the world is upside down to hear someone say it don't have to be—that a man could be paid enough to feed and house himself.

If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

I pretty much work all the time.

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.