“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.” KnowsYearsSchoolCitiesCompanyTeacherNew YorkVictimSellingNew York CityEngineersEquipmentPublic SchoolJerseyNew JerseySchool SystemLayoffFiltration Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.” CompanyVictimMythology Author:James Surowiecki
“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.” StoriesBigsGovernmentCompanyTreatsVictimDollarsCharityAvailableBillionsContractsConstructionSophisticatedAngleIncompetenceInsurance CompaniesScamsFollow UpLevees Author:Brian Ross
“Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.” ThinkingTryingMomentsParentEnjoyCompanyDoctorsVictimVarietyThese DaysPhasesEnteringPassivityVictimhoodPharmaceuticalMasochisticPharmaceutical Companies Author:J. G. Ballard
“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.” MotherParentCompanyTeachSpeechVictimIncomeHospitalsStrokesPercentagesTherapistsSingle Parent Author:Mona Simpson
“Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that go under would feel better if they knew that they were victims of Bose-Einstein condensation.” IfsFeelsTryingScienceLosesCompanyMathematicsVictimFeel BetterCondensation Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes
“Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.” WellsSoundCompanySubjectsVictimSuicideSurvivorDreadPoliteFamily And FriendsTabooInappropriate Book:Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention Source: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention
“The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.” ThinkingGovernmentEnjoyCompanyAmountVictimProfitOilProducersConsumersRevenueOil CompaniesHigh Prices Author:Ahmed Zaki Yamani
“Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.” GivingCommunityCompanyReturnVictimConstantCaringLove LifeFulfilledResentfulCaregiversMisusedCaretakers Author:Gary Zukav