Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

The minute your membership looses a job that can be identified, economic theory goes out the window. You're dealing with frightened human beings.

A rise of prices necessarily results in a diminution of the enjoyments of the laboring class until they can force the employers, through a long process of agitation, to make an increase in their wages.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.