#collar

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#brother #chicago #city #come #daughter

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crime #gets #more #outrageous #second

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. ↗

— Tom Peters

#finally #lives #offices #reaching #revolution

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too. ↗

— Liz Phair

#done #family #felt #i #just

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. ↗

— Robert Reich

#business #cycle #get #hit #like

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#blue-collar #community #ever #grew #i

A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master’s need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #to-command-and-collar #equality

Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix. ↗

— Stephan Pastis

#fashion #food