Employment Quotes - Page 2

In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.

Pew Research Center

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Garry Crystal

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Auliq-Ice

The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!

M. Azeem Pasha

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self-employment killed the weekend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties.Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thirty, or sponge on our relatives, and many jobs can only be got by passing an exam. The pseudo-scholar often does well in examination (real scholars are not much good), and even when he fails he appreciates their inner majesty. They are gateways to employment, they have power to ban and bless. A paper on King Lear may lead somewhere, unlike the rather far-fetched play of the same name. It may be a stepping-stone to the Local Government Board. He does not often put it to himself openly and say, "That's the use of knowing things, they help you to get on." The economic pressure he feels is more often subconscious, and he goes to his exam, merely feeling that a paper on King Lear is a very tempestuous and terrible experience but an intensely real one. ...As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment were contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

E.M. Forster

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

Joseph Ohler

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.

Thomas Sowell

We recruit for attitude and train for skill,

Atul Gawande

Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.

Naomi Klein

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask....On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.

Douglas Adams

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

Kim Stanley Robinson

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

David Foster Wallace

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better than a slave, no better than a hamster running on a wheel. You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice. But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage, and will never be anything else, but a hamster running on a wheel inside a cage, unless it escapes the cage.

Robert Black

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

N K Jemisin

Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people don't understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working. Excellence is not luck; it is the result of a lot of hard work and practice. Hard work and practice make a person better at whatever he is doing.

Shiv Khera

The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

Stephen Reid

There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but then there's another story that has to do with norms, behaviors, and oppositional culture. You can't prove the latter statistically, but it still might be true.' Holzer thinks that both arguments contain truth and that one doesn't preclude the other. Fair enough. Suffice it to say, though, that the evidence supporting structural inequality is compelling. In 2001, a researcher sent out black and white job applicants in Milwaukee, randomly assigning them a criminal record. The researcher concluded that a white man with a criminal record had about the same chance of getting a job as a black man without one. Three years later, researchers produced the same results in New York under more rigorous conditions.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They all stress a more objective and complete professional definition of people's needs, but are insensitive to the consequent expropriation of life.

Ivan Illich

Employment deprives you of purpose

Sunday Adelaja

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

Eoin Colfer

If he had spent just a little less time wrapped up in his thoughts, he never would have ignored the shadow that crept up on him, with hands made of darkness stretched and at the ready to separate him from his job by the most effective means of unemployment there has ever been.

Jim Dyar

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Tom Peters

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

Donald Kingsbury

They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Stephen Morrill

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.

Carlos Roche

We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.

Carlos Roche

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Claire Messud

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

Auliq-Ice

A clear mission statement describes the values and priorities of an organization. Developing a mission statement compels strategists to think about the nature and scope of present operations and to assess the potential attractiveness of future markets and activities. A mission statement broadly charts the future direction of an organization. A mission statement is a constant reminder to its employees of why the organization exists and what the founders envisioned when they put their fame and fortune at risk to breathe life into their dreams.

Fred R. David

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.

Crystal Woods

He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.

Sheri Webber

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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