Job Losses Quotes

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.”
― Michael Francis Moore

“When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.”
― Darrin Grimwood, Destroy All Robots

“I think we choose who we are and what we do about life events. Paige, isn't that what you've been doing since Kevin threw you out of the company? You've been stepping out in faith, trusting God to help you make your own life. Working at life is what matters most. What we do for a living is a component. Where we come from, who's in our lives, our families, our pets, and the people we decide we want to grow old with are all about life, but we make our own choices and build from the materials we've been given.”
― Lynette Endicott, More Than a Job

“The problem suggests the solution.”
― Tom Payne, The Path to Job Search Success