Job Classification Quotes

America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.

Any time you have to tell work where you're at and what you're doing, that's considered an employee, not a contractor.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

I do have trouble with titles.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.