#ploy

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts! ↗

— Denise Moreland

#business #change #conversation #culture #employees

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#ploy #women-s-liberation #men

I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t more men than jobs. It’s brought a peculiar, ghastly feeling into life. It’s like on a sinking ship when there are nineteen survivors and fourteen lifebelts. But is there anything particularly modern in that, you say? Has it anything to do with the war? Well, it feels as if it had. The feeling that you’ve got to be everlastingly fighting and hustling, that you’ll never get anything unless you grab it from somebody else, that there’s always somebody after your job, that next month or the month after they’ll be reducing staff and it’s you that’ll get the bird – that, I swear, didn’t exist in the old life before the war. ↗

— George Orwell

#war #life

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-love #long-distance-relationships #military-wife #military-wives #life

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . . trump the need to preserve your credit score, or purchase a new gizmo. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#credit #economy #money #unemployed #money

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job. ↗

— Seth Godin

#linchpin #nature

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#heroic #unemployed #death

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#employment #essential #first #perpetually #regular

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.
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— Jarod Kintz

#degree #economic-depression #english #job #leisure

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#criminal-justice-system #cycle-of-violence #desperation #greed #homelessness