Subject: Work (Page 3)

Manager: Someone who doesn’t know how to do your job, who tells you how to do your job.

Definitions People Work

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Education Occupations

Boss: A person who comes early to see who comes late.

Definitions Work

Auctioneer: The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Definitions Occupations

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist
Characteristics Work

The only problem with having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Problems Situations Work

Manicurist: A girl who makes money hand over fist.

Definitions Occupations Work

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Communication Occupations Work

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Characteristics Honesty Truth Work

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

(1874 – 1963) American poet
People Work

The one who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the one doing it.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Work

Baker: A person who kneads the dough.

Definitions Occupations

I'll never forget the time they gave me a farewell party at work. I was so surprised – I didn't even know I was fired.

comedian
Work

Consultant: A jobless person who shows executives how to work.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
Definitions Work

A homeless guy asked me for 2 pounds, so I gave him 1.67 because that’s what a woman would get paid for doing the same job.

British comedian
Men Money People Women Work

Work: An unpopular way to earn money.

Definitions Work

Taxi Driver: Worker who earns a living by driving customers away.

Definitions Occupations

You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Housework Things Time Work

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer
Occupations Work

Nurses: Patient people.

Definitions Health Occupations