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Tuesday 25th of August 2026

Amazon.com It may be tempting to see the Amazon surveillance as purely a warehouse problem, and surveillance-driven variable pay as a gig problem, but employers face no legal limit to incorporating new types of variable pay into formal employment — and abuses faced by independent contractors are merging with those faced by formal employees. … Corporations may soon jettison the fixed-wage model that has been a feature of blue-collar employment for decades. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
American Dream Not living paycheck to paycheck © 2018 Kwiple.com
American Dream Retiring © 2018 Kwiple.com
American Dream Retiring with enough money to live on © 2018 Kwiple.com
American Dream Taking a paid vacation © 2018 Kwiple.com
American Dream  Telling them to take this job and shove it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Paid-by-the-hour workers in low-wage industries such as retailing will be especially vulnerable. That could fuel a resurgence of labour unions seeking to represent employees' interests and to set norms. Even then, the choice in some jobs will be between being replaced by a robot or being treated like one. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence When AI comes for your job, you may not lose it, but it might become more alien, more isolatimg, more tedious. Josh Dzieza, New York Magazine, June 19 — July 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Automation The McKinsey Global Institute reckons that by 2030 up to 375m people, or 14% of the global workforce, could have their jobs automated away.  Bosses will need to decide whether they are prepared to offer and pay for retraining, and whether they will give time off for it. Many companies say they are all for workers developing new skills, but not at the employer's expense. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Big brother … in their capacity to track employee performance, to speed it up, to measure it against targets, managers at Walmart and Amazon are empowered in ways that their predecessors of a century ago could only dream of. Simon Head, Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Humans Dumber © 2016 Kwiple.com
Big brother Software that regularly snapshots workers' computer screens, counts mouse and keyboard clicks, captures webcam images, peeps relentlessly © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers A 2014 study … found that students who are enrolled only part time in classes (often because they need to work to cover costs) drop out at a rate of 68 percent, compared to 19 percent for full-time students. American Scientist, November-December 2016, citing National Student Clearinghouse data © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers About 3.5m people were employed as cashiers in US stores last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics – more than in any other occupation aside from sales. The BLS expects that number to rise just 2 per cent in the next decade, far less than the 7 per cent increase it projects for the entire US economy. Financial Times, December 10/11, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Between ages 25 and 45, the gender pay gap for college graduates, which starts close to zero, widens by 55 percentage points. For those without college degrees, it widens by 28 percentage points. … The average college-educated man … improves his earnings by 77 percent from age 25 to 45, while similar women improve their earnings by only 31 percent. Men without college degrees increase their earnings much faster than similar women in the first decade of their career, but by age 45, women catch up. New York Times, May 17, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Daily wage a prisoner in Portland, Oregon, is paid to clear out homeless camps: $1 Harper's Index, November 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which the gender pay gap in the White House has increased under Trump: 3.4 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Globally, the McKinsey researchers calculated that 49 percent of time spent on work activities could be automated with “currently demonnstrated technology” either already in the marketplace or being developed in labs. That, the report says, translates into $15.8 trillion in wages and the equivalent of 1.1 billion workers worldwide. But only 5 percent of jobs can be entirely automated. New York Times, January 12, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers If current trends continue, a quarter of men between 25 and 54 will be out of work by mid-century. Lawrence Summers, Financial Times, September 24-25, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Portion of Americans who have worked as independent contractors who would not do so again: 2/3 Harper's Index, December 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Portion of Americans who think that most of the work currently done by humans will be automated in fifty years: 2/3 Who think their job will still exist in its current form: 4/5 Harper's Index, June 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Portion of U.S. workers who believe strongly in their company's values: 1/4 Harper's Index, December 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Seventeen percent of workers told Gallup this year that they worked 60 hours or more a week, nearly double the 9 percent who said so in 2005. New York Times, December 27, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use reached its highest level in a decade … Overall, 4% of worker drug tests were positive in 2015. Among safety-sensitive workers, positive tests rose to 1.8% from 1.7%. In the general workforce, positive tests rose to 4.8% from 4.7%. … in 2014, the year of the most recent survey, about 10% of Americans over age 12 had used an illicit drug in the prior 30 days. Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The Treasury Department has discovered … that 18 percent of workers are covered by noncompete agreements. They aren't all high-end engineers with trade secrets in hand. The list includes fast-food workers. New York Times, November 2, 2016, © 2016 Kwiple.com
Capitalists say The only training worth paying for is paying your current job holders to train their H-1B replacements © 2017 Kwiple.com
Children Statistically, kids are safer from mass shootings in a meatpacking plant than in a school. Maybe they'll lose a limb, but hey, they'll probably survive. … Best of all, they're cheap  and their brains haven't developed enough to form unions! Arguments advanced by a lobbyist for water-downed child labor laws like those being passed in many Republican-led states, as represented in an April 26, 2023, cartoon by Jen Sorensen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christmas Nobody would come see Santa. Your mind starts going, why? Do I have something in my beard? You have to get yourself snapped out of that. Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2018, quoting a professional Santa Claus  describing what it's like working in a dying mall  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Communism The economic system of the modern workplace is communist, because the government – that is, the establishment – owns all the assets, and the top of the establishment hierarchy designs the production plan, which subordinates execute. There are no internal markets in the modern workplace. Indeed, the boundary of the firm is defined  as the point at which markets end and authoritarian centralized planning and direction begin. Elizabeth Anderson Private Government © 2018 Kwiple.com
Deindustrialization Today in Fort Wayne, I talked to somebody from Arlington that heard from someone in Lordstown that heard from someone in Wentzville that is related to someone in Lansing that heard about a psychic in Detroit that contacted Elvis, and Elvis said that he heard from 'a good source that is high up' that the day Hell freezes over, GM is going to reopen the Janesville plant. Probably just a rumor. Posted March 29, 2012, to Facebook group Janesville Wisconsin GM Transfers, 500+ workers commuting to plants across the South and Midwest years after Janesville shut down © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democracy If  democracy is justified  in governing the state, then it must also  be justified in governing economic enterprises; and to say that it is not  justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.  Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Economic Democracy © 2018 Kwiple.com
Economics In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap — as measured by the pay — that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed © 2015 Kwiple.com
Employment The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable. … So what will the useless class do all day? Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The economy increasingly requires people with very high skills or very few. The far more numerous jobs requiring “middle” skills that could be learned principally on the job are disappearing. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment They [economists Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand] show that since 2000 the share of employment accounted for by high- skilled jobs in America has been falling. As a result, college-educated workers are taking on jobs that are cognitively less demanding, displacing less educated workers. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Feelings Handshakes have given way to bear hugs, back pats and lingering embraces in some corners of the corporate world. … Huggers say their touchy-feely approach breeds teamwork, trust and better business results. Huggees don't always agree. Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2017, on co-worker hugging, mostly by CEOs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Gig economy Most sharing-economy workers make under $500 a month from such firms, according to data collected by consumer-lending startup Earnest. … While the paltry sum reflects how many people are just dabbling (as opposed to working full-time), it also highlights how tricky it can be to earn a living at companies that don't actually “hire” workers. … It's perhaps telling that Airbnb paid out the most on average–$926–per month. Returns on capital (rather than labor) are pretty good these days. fortune.com, June 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Government Government is everywhere, not just in the form of the state, but even more pervasively in the workplace. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Income growth An analysis of American wage growth by economists at the New York Federal Reserve showed that the bulk of earnings growth took place between the ages of 25 and 35; on average, after the age of 45 only the top 2% of lifetime earners see any earnings growth. So it is vital for people to move quickly into work once qualified and to hold on to jobs once they get them. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Journalism I...worked on this story for a year... and...he just...he tweeted it out. Like. I spent hours and days and weeks and months. And his son just, hit tweet. I tracked down sources. Followed so many dead leads. Labored over this. And then he just, you know, tweeted out the proof. Like, so many people out there were trying to track this down. And it just... got delivered on a tweet. What the hell. Jared Yates Sexton, independent journalist, July 11, 2017, tweets after Donald Trump, Jr. released emails proving the Trump campaign's williingness to collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary cost cutting (kôst kut'ing), n. Euphemism for firing people. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary entrepreneur (än'trə prə nûr’), n. What owners of software platforms for service industries call workers who depend on the platform to get work, who use their own assets, and who assume all work-related risks. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary flexible labor (flek'sə bəl lā'bər), n. Disposible workers. Human Pez. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary the office (thə ô'fis), n. A place where you must take stupid stuff seriously © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary pregnancy (preg'nən sē), n. The Number 1 killer of women's careers. Called off-the-job injury by lawyers for UPS. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary right to work law (rīt tōō wûrk lō), n. A law intended to kill unions by guaranteeing those who don't join all the rights and benefits unions win for their members, without having to pay union dues. Popular with Republicans and free riders, a large subset of the morally handicapped. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary self-employed (self em ploid'), adj. How 50- and 60-year-olds describe themselves after exhausting unemployment insurance. Also called freelancing. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Develop a publicly-funded, national, employee-owned digital platform for hiring and providing benefits and pensions for gig economy workers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say If your boss's name is Al Gorithm, you're fucked © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say It can  wait © 2015 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Being paid a living wage © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Having a job for life © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Being a permanently temporary worker © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Demanding clawbacks from workers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Wage theft © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Winking and nodding at overtime pay laws  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Working two or more part-time, minimum-wage jobs with no benefits © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing They don’t build cars. They take ’em out of a box, and they assemble ’em. We could have our child do it. Donald Trump, on American autoworkers  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Mergers and acquistions Rule #1: Sacrifice everyone else on the altar of preferred shareholders © 2015 Kwiple.com
Offices This is the great irony of modern working life. Just as architects and designers are learning how to build better offices, people are losing the habit of working in them. … After all, where is the joy in office life if you can't rely on seeing the same people every day and saying to them: wasn't Homeland  brilliant last night? Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times, November 30, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Politics It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies. Pat Paulsen © 2017 Kwiple.com
Poverty The next time you feel as though you're shouldering more than your fair share of society's burdens, ask yourself: How badly do I have to pee right now, and do I need permission? Judy Tirado, Hand to Mouth  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Poverty This is my bottom-line point about work and poverty. It's far more demoralizing to work and be poor than to be unemployed and poor. Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Too fucking busy, and vice versa. Dorothy Parker, responding to an editor who reminded her of an overdue piece © 2017 Kwiple.com
Remote work If you can do it in Tahoe, you can do it in India. Unnamed American executive attending the 2022 Davos World Economic Forum quoted by Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, May 29, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Abolish the minimum wage © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say All employment should be “at-will,” when redefined to mean all employers should have the right to fire anyone at any time for any or no reason without exception  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Call them “bureaucrats,” not “civil servants” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Let employers who oppose hiring employees require low-wage workers to become a corporation or pay franchise fees before hiring them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Equal pay for equal work  Placard, Washington, DC, International Women's Day March, March 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Retailing Retail used to be a career. You actually sat with your store manager and told them, “This is where I see myself in five years time.” No one thinks like that anymore. It's just a warm body who can pick up the clothes that were thrown on the floor. A 37-year-old store manager looking to change careers after having worked in retailing since he got a summer job as a 16-year-old high schooler Quoted in The Guardian, August 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots A computer doesn't need to replicate the entire spectrum of your intellectual capability in order to displace you from your job; it only needs to do the specific things you are paid to do. Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots A decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers – those who remain – assist the robots in theirs. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie My life mantra is that the solution to most human problems is earplugs, and nothing could induce me to attend the “happy hours” in the canteen. No doubt I am unusually misanthropic, but it turns out that few people meet anybody at a WeWork. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, April 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. George Bernard Shaw © 2024 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case. Donald Trump, responding to a question about what his daughter Ivanka should do if she were sexually harassed on the job © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment If you want to make the money, you'll learn to laugh. A West Virginia waitress dependent on tips to make a living, quoted in New York Times, March 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Silicon Valley Creator of job losses elsewhere © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Any job is better than no job © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Higher productivity results in higher wages © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say In every job that must be done There is an element of fun “A Spoonful of Sugar,” by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman, for Mary Poppins   © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Lower unemployment results in higher wages  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Vanderbilt has no time for dentists, he has to work, work hard and always. Cornelius Vanderbilt portrayed by Billy Wilder, who noticed Vanderbilt's bad teeth while interviewing him for a newspaper © 2021 Kwiple.com
Social media I'd still rather do this than work 9-5 somewhere. A Cameroonian immigrant quoted in Get Rich or Lie Trying, Symeon Brown's book about social media  influencers, who starred in a live-streaming show where Americans paid to racially abuse him © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union About 78 per cent of US workers live pay cheque to pay cheque, according to a 2017 study by CareerBuilder, a jobs portal. A survey the same year by the Federal Reserve found that nearly half of American families could not cover a $400 emergency expense without borrowing or selling something to do so. Financial Times, January 20, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union Companies urging workers to create a “culture of candor” by “front-stabbing” each another  © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Employers assuming workers have no other responsibilities © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Entry-level jobs now the best job many will have in their lifetime © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Getting a job requires more work and time than ever © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Go voluntarily and we'll say we laid you off © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union c A higher education paves the way to prosperity —————– —————– student debt and unpaid internships © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union A lifetime of temporary work becoming the new normal © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Longer hours, lower pay © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Prime-aged workers being displaced by younger and older ones © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Stagnant wages © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Starting wage becoming ending wage as incremental wage raises are replaced by occasional cash or non-cash “bonuses” © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Too little living-wage work, too much overwork © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Under-the-desk hammocks for napping at work © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Nothing except unionization or new laws would stop an employer from taking all the data it is gathering from sensors and  recordings and using them to more precisely adjust wages, until each worker gets the  lowest wage a which they are willing to work, and all workers live in fear of retaliation. This is no more sci-fi than Facebook and Google serving users individualized content and ads designed to keep us on their services as long as possible, allowing them to sell as many ads as possible. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Tracking technology may be marketed as tools to protect people, but will end up being used to identify with precision how little each worker is willing to make. It will be used to depress wages and also kill the camaderie that precedes union- ization by making it harder to connect with other workers, poisoning the community that enables democratic debate.  It will be used to disrupt solidarity by paying  workers differently. And it will lead to anxiety and fear permeating more workplaces, as the fog of not knowing why you got a bonus or demotion shapes the day. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say DOWHILE desperate job seekers { Load ’em up with debt Pay ’em a pittance Replace ’em with robots Walk away with millions } --> © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say DOWHILE willing millennials { Lure ’em Hire ’em Burn ’em out Fire ’em } © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Moms are persona non grata as co-workers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Replace other people with robots © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say We don't help you make a living wage, we help you supplement income from one job with income from other jobs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology … a contrarian indicator of this growing industrialization of the service economy is the rapid and parallel growth of the concierge economy, in which very high- income consumers use their financial muscle to escape reliance on the defective, mass-produced services available to middle- and lower-income consumers. So there are concierge doctors on Park Avenue and mass-production doctors with HMOIs … In the concierge economy, the relationship between technology and work is turned on its head and information systems are used to supplement rather than replace the skills of employees. There are no digital scripts at the Goldman Sachs private bank. Simon Head, Mindless © 2016 Kwiple.com
Work Americans shouldn't be ashamed to get their hands dirty. The dirt that gets under your fingernails, my dad would tell me, is clean dirt. You worked for and it washes off. A lot of this dirt we have in this nation is no longer clean dirt. A former industrial engineer quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitkin  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Work Businesses treat their least powerful employees as poorly as they can get away with, end of story. Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work Companies now use gamelike techniques to cut labor costs by motivating workers to become lower-cost Heroes of Late-Capitalist Labor  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work Employees have to assume that everything they say can be recorded. What does it mean when all the words, and the tone of those words, might be replayed? Whispering has lost its power. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Work The end of work will not necessarily mean the end of meaning, because meaning is generated by imagining rather than by working. Work is essential for meaning only according to some ideologies and lifestyles. Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Work … for most people work brings few rewards beyond a payslip. As the pollster Gallup showed in its momentous survey of working life in 155 countries published in 2017, only one in 10 western Europeans described themselves as engaged in their jobs. This is perhaps unsurprising. After all, in another survey conducted by YouGov in 2015, 37 per cent of working British adults said their jobs were not making any meaningful contribution to the world. James Suzman, Financial Times, August 28, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Work The goal, Dr. [Susan] Lambert [University of Chicago professor of social work] told me, is “one reasonable job per person.” Not “two for one and half for another.” Bryce Covert, New York Times, July 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. attributed to Huey Long © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work I smoke a lot of weed when I write, generally speaking. I don't know if it helps me write. It makes me not mind that I'm writing.  And I don't know if it makes me work better,  but it makes me not care that I'm working. Who wants to work? But if you're stoned, it doesn't seem like work. Seth Rogen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Work I want to be an American so I can work, that is the only wonder here—work! Rodolpho, an illegal immigrant in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work I would suppose that workers sacrifice more of their lives by working than investors sacrifice by investing. Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Economic Democracy © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work In the new work culture, enduring or even merely liking one's job is not enough. Workers should love  what they do, and then promote that on social media, thus fusing their identities to that of their employers. Why else would LinkedIn build its own version of Snapchat Stories? This is toil glamour and it is going mainstream. … Workplace indifference just doesn't have a socially acceptable hashtag. Erin Griffith, New York Times, January 26, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Work In today’s economy, few workers get to be judged on output that is discrete and identifiably theirs (such as a newspaper column). More often, they are among the many contributors to a rolling and amorphous process: a corporate merger, say, or IT maintenance. One effect is that, in all candour, I have no idea what most of you do. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 2, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work [I]t is the state that establishes the default constitution of workplace governance. It is a form of authoritarian, private government, in which, under employment-at-will, workers cede all  their rights to their employers, except those specifically reserved for them by law. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work  It's true hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance? Ronald Reagan © 2023 Kwiple.com
Work The jobs you work increasingly relfects the money you already had. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Work The logical conclusion of workplace surveillance is that  the private sphere ceases to exist at home because it ceases to exist at work, where visibility into the worker's life is unrestrained. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Work Low prices mean low wages. Speed, reliability and convenience mean pressure, monitoring and unpredictable hours. In other words, the same things that make this a wonderful time to be a consumer make it a terrible time to be a worker. Sarah O'Connor, Financial Times, November 30, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Work Most workers in the United States are governed by communist dictatorships in their work lives. Elizabeth Anderson Private Government © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work The way to make work work is to cut it back. Bryce Covert, New York Times, July 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work When reporters write about Google, they write about it as if it was inevitable. The actual experience was more like, “Could you work 130 hours in a week?” The answer is yes, if you're strategic about when you sleep, when you shower, and how often you go to the bathroom. Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer Gizmodo's article about Mayer's speech including this statement was entitled, “Marissa Mayer: You, Too, Can Work 130 Hours a Week If You Plan When to Take a Shit” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work You will be rewarded by not being fired. Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University, on the rewards to expect from hard work after graduating and entering the worforce, in her 2011 commencement address, quoted by Edward Luce in Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Work requirements On welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Off welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Jason DeParle, American Dream  © 2018 Kwiple.com