Employment Quotes

“Schooling doesn't assure employment but skill does.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We lose huge portions of our lives to making a living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Carefree Scamps are unconventional to the extreme but they get better results, and frequently their employers, who were often in two minds about offering them the position in the first place, eventually realise they’ve found a diamond, yet not only are they unsure how to handle them, they can seldom work out how specifically they accomplish their objectives because in one way or another they’re always rocking the bloody boat. The Carefree Scamp takes quite a bit of ‘managing”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Prostitutes hire out one tiny portion of their bodies. Employees sell countless huge portions of their lives.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is rest, not a vacation, that is a biological need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We have been through a torrid decade and more, where living standards have declined but we are constantly told this one of the longest running economic expansions in history. It's as if truly live in George Orwell's 1984 and the powers that be speak a form of doublespeak. When they say employment is at a record high they fail to say wages have been going down in real terms for decades.”
― Sam Volkering, Crypto Revolution: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and the Future of Money

“A boss over steps the boundaries of good taste and the implied condition of good faith in an employment agreement whenever they demand that their subordinates assist them resolve their personal as opposed to professional problems.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Working for a husband and wife ran business is nearly as tricky as navigating a sailing ship while battling the forces of high wind and strong current. It is challenging to work for a husband wife team because they can offset each other’s virtues and magnify their vices.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“As a young woman I, Frances, did not have Serena's appetite for work. I never quite accepted employment as an essential part in my life.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Don’t come and offer master's degree 'cos you’re unemployed. It’s not a solution to unemployment unless you want to be an academic. Get some skills and sharpen yourself; it will direct you to the right master's degree or professional cert.”
― Kingsley Ofosu-Ampong

“Software is eating the world, so we need software developers. But it is less clear what we will need when software finishes its meal and settles down to digest. What happens when robots learn to program themselves?”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“an organization’s capability agenda is increasingly less about your status in the company, the colour of your identity card, words in your contract or the job title you carry, and more about the value you create”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“acknowledging the relative and emotive nature of ‘worth’, a fair wage is nothing but an economic and emotional threshold at which an individual no longer worries about immediate financial security. It is the point at which the focus shifts from the pay, to the work itself”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“remember that the most talented employees don’t turn up just for a salary or to fulfill a routine need. They turn up bright-eyed because they have an idea in play”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“There's no position without opposition. When God positions you, what man can only do is to try to oppose you, but cannot depose you.”
― Joseph Jacson K.

“My dislike of the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College is based on unpleasant experiences in their employment.”
― Steven w Magee

“Engage in the cover up or be fired.”
― Steven Magee

“While handling mercury systems in the employment of Columbia University and Dartmouth College, I have no recollection of receiving industry recognized health and safety training for the workplace hazards present.”
― Steven Magee

“The distribution of tasks amongst the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“People wait until that fateful day when they wake up and realize that while they were sitting around paying dues, earning their keep, waiting for that elusive ‘perfect time’ their entire life has passed them by.”
― Richie Norton

“Change how you're paid, change your life. Your life undeniably revolves around the way you are paid.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Wage changes occur at infrequent intervals and condition the behaviour of the parties concerned for the ensuing economic period (sometimes months, usually years).”
― William F. Mitchell, Macroeconomics

“The slave cannot be made to defecate for the master.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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― V J Smith, GREAT SALAD RECIPES

“It is painful to see someone do something we do with displeasure for pleasure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Working just for money is to some people more humiliating than being unemployed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union; everybody can, and indeed must, work; and so far as I know, everybody does. As a kind of offset to this universal activity, everybody—when not working—sits about and waits.”
― E.M. Delafield, The Provincial Lady in Russia

“You'll never find a harder, more dedicated, more loyal worker than someone who's already been passed over by somebody else.”
― Seanan McGuire, Tricks for Free

“The employer is ultimately interested in the growth of the business, not that of the employee.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who regularly use a TV are the most likely to occasionally use a CV.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana