Workplace Unhappiness Quotes

I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.

We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.