Employment Quotes

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.

To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That was all. But, nevertheless, it is any thing but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away; or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial; so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum. Of the fact, there could be no doubt; and, examining myself and others, I was led to conclusions in reference to the effect of public office on the character, not very favorable to the mode of life in question. In some other form, perhaps, I may hereafter develop these effects. Suffice it here to say, that a Custom-House officer, of long continuance, can hardly be a very praiseworthy or respectable personage, for many reasons; one of them, the tenure by which he holds his situation, and another, the very nature of his business, which—though, I trust, an honest one—is of such a sort that he does not share in the united effort of mankind.An effect—which I believe to be observable, more or less, in every individual who has occupied the position—is, that, while he leans on the mighty arm of the Republic, his own proper strength departs from him. He loses, in an extent proportioned to the weakness or force of his original nature, the capability of self-support. If he possess an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable. The ejected officer—fortunate in the unkindly shove that sends him forth betimes, to struggle amid a struggling world—may return to himself, and become all that he has ever been. But this seldom happens. He usually keeps his ground just long enough for his own ruin, and is then thrust out, with sinews all unstrung, to totter along the difficult footpath of life as he best may. Conscious of his own infirmity,—that his tempered steel and elasticity are lost,—he for ever afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of support external to himself. His pervading and continual hope—a hallucination, which, in the face of all discouragement, and making light of impossibilities, haunts him while he lives, and, I fancy, like the convulsive throes of the cholera, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that, finally, and in no long time, by some happy coincidence of circumstances, he shall be restored to office. This faith, more than any thing else, steals the pith and availability out of whatever enterprise he may dream of undertaking. Why should he toil and moil, and be at so much trouble to pick himself up out of the mud, when, in a little while hence, the strong arm of his Uncle will raise and support him? Why should he work for his living here, or go to dig gold in California, when he is so soon to be made happy, at monthly intervals, with a little pile of glittering coin out of his Uncle's pocket? It is sadly curious to observe how slight a taste of office suffices to infect a poor fellow with this singular disease. Uncle Sam's gold—meaning no disrespect to the worthy old gentleman—has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the Devil's wages. Whoever touches it should look well to himself, or he may find the bargain to go hard against him, involving, if not his soul, yet many of its better attributes; its sturdy force, its courage and constancy, its truth, its self-reliance, and all that gives the emphasis to manly character.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.

Joshua Ferris

...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.

Bertrand Russell

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

John Lanchester

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

Sara Sheridan

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Gyan Nagpal

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

Gyan Nagpal

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

Joseph Ohler

You may be thinking that your company has a human resources person who will keep you out of trouble. This is a dangerous misconception. Whether your company has a massive Human Resources Department with hundreds of representatives or a small office with just a single representative, these HR reps are not your advocates. They work for the company, not for you.

Johanna Harris

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

Charles Bukowski

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?

Richard N. Bolles

What will you do?" Eva would ask him. "I don't know," he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine because he couldn't take the sight of blood. "What will you do?" It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.

Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

Gyan Nagpal

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The cover letter is all about what you want. Nasty Gal gets so many cover letters that detail a “passion for fashion” and then proceed to talk about how this job will help the applicant pursue her interests, gain more experience, and explore new avenues.If a cover letter starts out like this, I usually end up reading the first couple of sentences before hitting the delete button. Why? Because I don’t care about what a job will do for you and your personal development. I know that sounds harsh, but I don’t know you, so the fact that you want to work for my company does not automatically mean that I have an interest in helping you grow your career. I have a business that is growing by the day, so I want to know what you can do for me. It’s as simple as that.

Sophia Amoruso

A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Melanie Pinola

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

Gyan Nagpal

And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight.

Hans Fallada

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

Bharath Mamidoju

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

Simon Gray

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