#employee

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work. ↗

— John Engler

#doing #employees #hurdles #manufacturers #remarkable

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#britain #cent #country #developed #developed country

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. ↗

— Jack Welch

#ceo #ceos #company #could #cultural

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#deserves #employees #employer #generally #gets

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#being #boss #employee #find #i

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#employee #her #house #husband #permanent

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #businesses #buy #case #cost

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#big #contributing #employees #entire #gamble