Hector Ruiz Quotes

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

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.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

Getting fired is hard.

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

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.