1,304 Quotes About Employment
- Author Thomas Sowell
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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.
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- Author Atul Gawande
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We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
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- Author Douglas Adams
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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.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.
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- Author N.K. Jemisin
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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.
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- Author Stephen Reid
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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!
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