“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.” LifeLife LessonsLossMistakeCareersHuman NatureFailureSelf WorthMistakesEmploymentCareerLearning From MistakesLosing HopeGetting FiredJob LossesLosing Self Book:Gone Girl Source: Gone Girl
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” EmploymentWhite CollarKafkaesqueJob Losses Book:Infinite Jest Source: Infinite Jest
“Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.” EconomyUnemploymentManufacturingCheapJob LossesLow WagesLow Prices Author:Michael Francis Moore
“When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.” TruthJobsSocietyAngerHard TimesJoblessUnemploymentJoblessnessHard TruthsMechanizationIndustrialisationJob Losses Book:Destroy All Robots Source: Destroy All Robots