The Ministry of Labour issues a lot of statistics about the working conditions, but most of the statistics, for example statistics on working hours and the lengths of the holidays on so on, excludes the workers who work for the companies which employs less than a thirty people, and that means that about 42% of the workers are excluded from the statistics. Those are the most unprotected. Those are receiving the worst working conditions in Japan. Shigeru Wada, National Railway Workers’ Union
Almost 75% of people in America are stressed out at their work. Numbers Game: What Drives You Crazy? National Geographic 2013
Biggest pet peeve in the office: office loud talker. ibid.
How about tapping into your IQ and training your emotions to maximise your earnings potential? Numbers Game: Will You Make a Million?
Money can drive people to do some crazy things. ibid.
Adaptability is one of the most important skills that we can have in the modern workplace. ibid.
Procrastination: consciously delaying the decision till the last minute so you make a better decision. ibid.
Persistence = Reward. ibid.
They fire and hire workers without taking into account the opinion of the workers of the plant, scorning the laws, conquests and social rights of the workers. A clique of self-seeking politicians is being formed. These new dignitaries have discovered that a party book is more important than technical qualifications. Adam Kurylowicz
Welcome to the world of the long term dole and long term on the sick. Meet the people who don’t work. Meet the people who say they can’t work. And meet the people who might never work. Benefits: Can’t Work, Won't Work, Channel 5 2015
There is an art to dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour shift, an art to putting your mind somewhere else while the seconds slowly tick away. Cashback 2006 starring Sean Biggerstaff & Emilia Fox & Shaun Evans & Michelle Ryan & Stuart Goodwin & Michael Dixon & Michael Lambourne & Gayle Dudley & Marc Pickering et al, director Sean Ellis
Without any warning or expectation at all I was suspended from duty ... ‘internet related’ ... ‘unprofessional, inappropriate and offensive’. Ben Emlyn-Jones [Hospital Porters Against the New World Order] interview Richplanet TV
It might be you next. People who express views of this nature are often targeted for harassment. ibid.
Saturday was the worst day of all. Apart from the looks and remarks, the work itself went on for nearly twelve hours without a break, except half an hour at seven when I was supposed to have supper. I sat down in the smoky, greasy kitchen, and pushed the plate of fish and chips away and put my head down on my arms where it had been. I didn't go to sleep. I just lay there thinking over and over again, Only five more hours, only five more hours. I had no other thought in my head at all. When the proprietor put his hand on my shoulder to tell me my half-hour was up, I opened my eyes and sat up suddenly. I must have been partly asleep because everything reeled and sparkled for a minute and the proprietor’s face in the middle of it looked exactly like my father’s. Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room
... I walked to him, where he stood behind the counter, gloating over the overflowing cash-drawer, and said: ‘While you’ve got that drawer open, may I have my wages, please?’
He counted out my money, less insurance, very slowly, and, it seemed to me, grudgingly. Then he passed it over to me, but when I reached to take it he drew it back. He held it where I couldn’t reach it, and weighed it in his hand, smiling at me. ibid.
Professions are all very well for those who have connection and interest as well as capital, but otherwise they are white elephants. How many men do not you and I know who have talent, assiduity, excellent good sense, straightforwardness, every quality in fact which should command success, and who yet go on from year to year waiting and hoping against hope for the work which never comes? How, indeed, is it likely to come unless to those who either are born with interest, or who marry in order to get it? Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
They are then packed back to their barracks in Ahman, where they are expected to provide and cook their own food. The conditions are subhuman. About sixty men are required to share one stinking toilet ... Eight to fifteen men live in one room. Misha Glenny, McMafia
When foreigners go to work in the UAE, their employers take their passport and keep it. ibid.
Tonight – struggling to make ends meet on low pay. The families forced to make heartbreaking decisions. Britain’s low-pay hotspots, and the companies named and shamed ... Almost six million working people are still struggling to survive on low pay in Britain today. Tonight: Does Work Pay? ITV 2015
Side hustles: How to make extra cash. Just how hard is it to make more money? What it takes to earn a living online. Tonight: Side Hustles: How to Earn More Money? ITV 2022
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. Exodus 35:35.
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:3&10&30
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Ecclesiastes 8:17
And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. Isaiah 14:3
Though ye believe me not, believe the works. John 10:38
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. Romans 11:5&6
If any would not work, neither should he eat. II Thessalonians 3:10
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15&16
Set thy heart upon thy work but never upon its reward. Work not for reward: but never cease to do thy work. Bhagavad Gita, Hindu epic poem incorporated into Mahabharata
Then will the believers say (unto the people of the Scripture): are these they who swore by Allah their most binding oaths that they were surely with you? Their works have failed, and they have become the losers. Koran 5:53