Quotes About Employment

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

Benjamin Franklin had predicted as much nearly a century before, commenting that with the introduction of slavery, "the Poor are by this Means deprived of Employment, while a few Families acquire vast Estates; which they spend on Foreign Luxuries, and educating their Children in the Habits of those Luxuries; the same Income is needed for the Support of one that might have maintain'd 100."57

Today was a terrible day. My ex got hit by a bus, and I lost my job as a bus driver

That's the whole point of bread and circuses; they give employment to the vulgar.

Zita Wilensky, a 16-year veteran, was the only white employee of Miami-Dade County Domestic Violence Unit. Her co-workers made fun of her and called her gringa and Americana. Miss Wilensky says her boss gave her 60 days to learn Spanish, and fired her when she failed to do so.271

However, an American has a less than 1 percent chance of being poor if he manages to do just three things: finish high school, get and stay married, and stick with a job—even a minimum-wage job—for at least a year.1045

Since there is such desperation to hire black faculty, black professors are constantly being wooed from campus to campus with higher salary offers. Not surprisingly, blacks now make more money than whites with equivalent Ph.D.s.602

It must be something of a shock for university students to learn one of the great, unwritten rules of race relations in America today: Affirmative action has lowered employment and admissions standards for nonwhites all across America, but everyone must pretend not to have noticed. After they graduate, students discover that affirmative action is not limited to employment and student admissions.

Not only am I thinking about getting a nose job, but I'm also trying to get employment for the rest of my face.

I like to call in sick to work at places where I've never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don't work there, I tell them I'd like to. But not today, as I'm sick.

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it's simply called Job.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.