Quotes About Employment

The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

In today's global economy, two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world's employed population – make their living in the informal economy (ILO 2018a).

First and foremost, well over half of all workers globally, 90 per cent in developing countries and 67 per cent in emerging economies, are informally employed. It is only in developed countries that most workers (82 per cent) are formally employed (ILO 2018a). As

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

French and Italian hospitality industries, food service employees take pleasure in being the best at what they do. They may be the finest oyster shucker, the most knowledgeable vintner, an expert cheese purveyor. Toiling in an American supermarket is widely presumed to be a stopgap job, seldom a vocation.

Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener.

The largest concentrations of women were found in industries with the smallest number of accidents. In such industries, women outnumbered men nearly four to one. Conversely, in the most dangerous places, there were hardly any women at all.[367]

For example, at Wigan Pier, later to be made famous by George Orwell, women formed just 5.5 percent of the work force. Of them, not a single one worked underground.[355]

In 1945, out of 52 million American adult women only 19.5 million held jobs. Among married women, only a quarter did.[364] Though the image of Rosie the Riveter dominated propaganda, its link to reality was tenuous. In metal-working plants of all types, male workers outnumbered female ones more than three to one.[365]

The combination of modern anti-discrimination laws, on the one hand, and women's reluctance to pull up their sleeves, on the other, can lead to strange results. Thus, whereas 80 percent of all clerks in the United States are women, the one "clerical" job that involves substantial outdoor walking — mail delivery — is done almost entirely by men.[401

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban world, and you need to make money. That means you need a job, and the only way to get a job is by turning a job interview into a job offer.

The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.

If we can't find valuable work, it's not because we're in a recession; we're in a recession because we can't find valuable work. We've been confusing cause and effect.

Sift through threats for hidden possibilities. Every threat carries with it the potential for innovation. The problem of obesity contains the possibility of new kinds of nutrition. The problem of global pollution contains the possibility of new energy sources. The problem of high unemployment contains the possibility of new educational models. The list is endless, if you can learn to see what's not there.

don't sweeten the pill of bad pay for new

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.

In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money; and as far as our traditional wisdom is concerned, our men are being told by the white missionaries, teachers, and employers that it is merely savage superstition.

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

It took organized labor and the collective action of workers to make full-time employment in the semi-automated world of industrial manufacturing inhabitable. Unfortunately, the valorization and validation of full-time employment also made it easier for corporate interests to position piecework and, later, other forms of temporary or contract labor as expendable, that is, work that did not warrant protections.