Employment Issue Quotes

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

I am writing a line on this subject to the head of the union. In war time it is considered essential to play "The Star Spangled Banner," but to employ musicians for this purpose and this purpose only, seems to be rather difficult. They certainly could not make a living wage on a short engagement of this kind. In this particular case, the theatre was being picketed because it was using a record instead of employing musicians.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Military spouse employment is the issue that most people email me about when they are suggesting topics for me to cover in my Home Front' column.

But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11?

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.

To be honest a great deal of the job problem is connected to foreign born immigrants

It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.