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“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
“Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it's just murder.”
“A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.”
“Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Deans The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; its the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.”
“I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job w...”
“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. '...”
“The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.”
“The purpose of employment is not to make money”
“It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).”
“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”
“It's love for my profession that keep me coming back, not the money. I'd work as hard to make $50.00 as I would $5,000.00. I never scoff at an opportunity to earn a living, regardless of the size o...”
“When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripe...”
“A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.”
“*Im hustling* is a low self-esteem having mans way of saying *Im unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic womans question as to what he does for a living.”
“Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.”
“I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.”
“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 minimu...”
“We recruit for attitude and train for skill,”
“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 thin...”
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”
