Today, I am meeting a potential client on the golf course because Ryan put me on probation. You remember Ryan: he was the temp here. Yeah and, uh, it is not a good time for me to lose my job since I have some pretty big long-term plans in my personal life with Pam that I’d like her parents to be psyched about. So, I am about to do something very bold in this job that I’ve never done before: Try. The Office US s4e17: Job Fair, Jim
You can all have jobs at Schrute farms as human scarecrows. It doesn’t pay much. And you can’t unionise. The Office US s6e10: Murder, Dwight to office
You know how some people say they’re not in it for the money? Well, with all due respect to this job, I’m think I’m definitely in it for the money. And, quite honestly, the women. The Office US s6e16: The Manager and the Salesman, Jim
You can stick your job right up your big fat ass. Alan Bleasdale, Play for Today: The Black Stuff starring Bernard Hill (Yosser) & Michael Angelis (Chrissie Todd) & Alan Igbon (Loggo Logmond) & Peter Kerrigan (George Malone) & Tom Georgeson (Dixie Dean), BBC 1980
Gissa job. Go on, gissit. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Black Stuff: Jobs for the Boys, Yosser to site boss, BBC 1982
Doing something you’re good at – there’s nothing like it. ibid. Snowy
That’s what your superiors are for – to keep you completely in the dark. ibid. Donald the Social Security Officer
Gissa job. Go on gissit. Gissa go, go on. I can do that. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Blackstuff: Yosser’s Story
I hate this job, you know. I don’t want to disconnect people. ibid. Electricity man
Pryor: Tell me about the job opportunity.
It’s in banking [dancing outside branch in birdie uniforms]. Stir Crazy 1980 starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor & Georg Stanford Brown & JoBeth Williams & Miguel Angel Suarez & Craig T Nelson & Barry Corbin & Nicolas Coster & Joel Brooks & Jonathan Banks & Jonathan Banks & Erland van Lidth et al, director Sidney Potier
Most of them were artisans and labourers out of employment and evidently in no hurry to go home. Some of them had neither tea nor fire to go to, and stayed away from home as long as possible so as not to be compelled to look upon the misery of those who were waiting for them there. Others hung about hoping against all probability that they might even yet – although it was so late – hear of some job to be started somewhere or other. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that’s exactly what I would have done. Brian Clough
I’ve never felt envy in my life ... But I do feel envy when this particular man has got this particular job. Brian Clough, interview David Frost, BBC 1974
What I do requires a certain mindset. I do assignments ... The best jobs are the ones nobody knows you’re there. The Mechanic 2011 starring Jason Statham & Ben Foster & Tony Goldwyn & Donald Sutherland & Jeff Chase & John McConnell & Mini Anden & Stuart Greer et al, director Simon West
This is my last job. Every job is my last job. The Detonator 2006 starring Wesley Snipes & Silvia Colloca & Tim Dutton & William Hope & Matthew Leitch & Michael Brandon & Stuart Milligan, director Po Chih Leong
It has all the signs of the sweetest job ever. But you’ve got to get those numbers. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 1979 starring Richard Jordan & Oliver Tobias & David Niven & Gloria Grahame & Richard Johnson & Michael Angelis & Dicken Ashworth & Brian Croucher & Elke Sommer & Derek Deadman et al, Niven
Taking orders on a bullshit ass job. Straight Outta Compton 2015 starring O’Shea Jackson & Corey Hawkins & Jason Mitchell & Aldis Hodge & Neil Brown & Paul Giamatti & Marlon Yates & Corey Reynolds & Tate Ellington & Alesandro Shipp & Angela Elayne Gibbs & Bruce Beatty et al, director F Gary Gray, son to mother
3,500 jobs a day are moving out of this country. The rubber industry has gone to Mexico. Electronics has gone to South Korea. Textiles to the far east. Down and Out in America, 1986
About 90% of people are insecure about their jobs … About 70% are afraid that if they try to get involved in union organising they’ll be fired. Noam Chomsky, lecture MIT 22nd February 1999, ‘Foundations of World Order’
Why we are trapped in a culture of endless work. How did work go from something we do to who we are? These are the deals that make you work harder, made your pay lower, and might one day replace you with a robot. Jacques Peretti, Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World, BBC 2017
30% of jobs in the UK could be automated within the next fifteen years. ibid.
Summer 1975: ‘If Japan can, why can’t we?’ ibid. NBC News 1980
The company wouldn’t just give the employees jobs to do, it would set all-encompassing values for them: this was the key to reshaping their businesses for them … viz. Waterman & Peters’ In Search of Excellence. ibid.
1997: The world of business changing fast … ‘Losing talent to dot.com startups’ … The job for life is over. ibid.
Today more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low-income jobs. Wolvoman80, Government and New World Order Corruption Exposed aka Planet Earth, Youtube 3.00.26
Everyone knows something is wrong. That it’s been wrong for a while now. But the powers that shouldn’t be keep telling us that everything is going to be just fine. Obsolete, Youtube 49.48, Truthstream Media 2016
The economy isn’t just down, it’s imaginary. The middle class isn’t just shrinking, it’s dying. The wealth gap is astronomical and growing … Wages everywhere except at the executive level are stagnating … ibid.
When did freedom get replaced by freedom of choice? ibid.
More and more people are losing their jobs to what has slovenly been termed ‘technological unemployment’. ibid.
A system poised for collapse. ibid.
Davos 2016: ‘World without work.’ ibid.
No I’m not taking the job. Suckers. I feel sorry for you. Better Call Saul s4e2: Breathe, Jimmy rejects job offer, AMC 2018
Jacob, you’re going to have to get a fourth job. Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series VII: Satan’s Bastards, Ricky
I’ve got a real job. One with insurance and everything. Ozark s2e1: Reparations, Ruth, Netflix 2018
We’re sold a story about how to do well in life. If you get a good degree from one of the best universities, you can make it to the top. Turns out that’s a bit of a lie. New research is revealing the subtle ways young people from poorer background are excluded from Britain’s top professions. You need something else to break into the elite, something they don’t teach you about in school. So what are the rules of the game? How to Break into the Elite, Amol Rajan reporting, BBC 2019
Just how easy is it for today’s kids to make the journey I did? [Oxbridge] ibid.
10% of working class people will make it into elite occupations. ibid.
‘When we look at those who went to Russell Group universities, those from a privileged background who get 2:2 degrees, second class degrees, are still more likely to go into a top occupation than those from working class backgrounds who got to the same universities and got a first.’ ibid. researcher
The dashed hopes of an entire generation. ibid.
‘If you have a parent who works in film or television, you are twelve times more likely to go into film or television.’ ibid. researcher
‘I don’t think the elite will ever give way.’ ibid. Matthew Wright
In a lot of elite professions, prejudice about class goes completely unchallenged. ibid.
From now on Guillermo will receive one day off per week. Plus a fifteen minute break every four hours. What We Do in the Shadows s2e9: Witches, Nandor
Unemployment Officer: So, what kind of work are you interested in?
Mandy: I like mindless tasks. Something I can do with my hands. Mandy I, BBC 2020
Please watch the video … Did you watch the video? Great, I’ll see you Monday then. Have you been smoking? ibid. Banana factory’s induction course: tiny television in corner of staff room
Please pay attention to this short health and safety presentation. Processing and distributing up to 20,000 bananas of day, we are proud to have the 6th highest volume of any banana processing and distribution centre in the UK and north Europe region. And all this with the 3rd best health and safety record. Let’s keep it that way. This is Mick. Mick was brought on board to replace Jill who was sadly killed in a banana processing and distribution incident. ibid. Health & safety video