Unreasonable Hours Quotes

The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.

Those Oriental people work like dogs.

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.

Obviously, I wasn't expecting Wall Street to be a laid-back place. I was prepared for hard work. Sadly, much of the work the new guys were asked to do and the insane hours we were expected to keep had little to do with making the bank more productive. It felt more like hazing.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

Serious concerns about worker safety and fair treatment have been reported at Amazon warehouses. Workers have fallen ill from extreme heat, had to urinate in bottles because they don't have enough time to use facilities, and been unfairly terminated.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

You can make me work for 14 hours at a stretch, but don't make me sit.