I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
If you rode to my mother's house, it's still a two-bedroom house, one floor. She still drives the same Toyota Corolla that she drove for the last three years and is still trying to meet ends. So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don't think that's enough to sell out myself and my family.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.
I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.
Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.
[Monetary] Compensation is a pretty poor substitute for loss.
of life or limbs or functionality
For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.