Employment Issues Quotes

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

There was a time I couldn't get a job.

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

I was undervalued so I stopped stripping. I was 18 years old and I worked three jobs. This was just one of them, and I really enjoyed performing. It was probably my first performing job ever. I really like to dance, obviously, but then I didn't really love taking the clothes off at the end.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.

We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce. The testimony of two women is equal to that of one man. Any woman who wishes to travel needs the written permission of her husband. And the number of unemployed women is four times that of men.

While labour market reports scream with dramatic youth unemployment data, hundreds of employers cry out for employees with the right skills sets. As recruiters, we suffer this shortage every day.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.