Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Know something? I’d lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we’ve become this city’s principle means of employment. Tal Verrar’s entire economy is now based on fucking with...

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show...

…the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A salary is, to a man’s employer, what his wife’s vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

If a man were choking, what would I do? Depends. If that man is my boss, I’d strangle him.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting...

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

The thing about the Lexington International Bank ladder was that it was very long, and climbing it was very exhausting, and so Andrew Brown didn’t have a lot of time to think about whether he...

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man’s last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

I wore a long white dress shirt and no pants, so it looked like a white dress. I felt like a bride in love. Well, at least until my boss fired me.

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That was all. But, nevertheless, it is any thing but agreeable to...

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use...

The actual growth in a person’s life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and...

A major reason many Americans still struggle to find meaningful work is because they are using tactics from the 1990s and early 2000s. The future for employment is now here…and it’s online.”~February 21, 2013 as...

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

A good server knows how to be seen, yet remain invisible. I was a great server, and I achieved invisibility by never showing up for work. My boss ended up firing me, probably over petty...

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

Oh, look, there are jobs available in Jacksonville! Today there are two jobs for me and 1.2 million other people in this city to choose from. I can either go into the advertising industry by...

…I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.’What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.’Employers sense in me a denial of their values.’ He rolled over onto his back....

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give – its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

recession.” No matter how many millions of jobs are lost, how much debt our country accrues, or how many years the stagnation drags on, it’s not a depression until the dogmatic media officially declares it...

Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that’s when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan ‘Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay...

The garden is an unemployed township-based man’s cubicle.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

If I get famous, I’d seek employment in a wax museum—as a candle. If you fire me, make sure you blow me out before singing Happy Birthday.

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.