Albert Gubay Quotes

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

Workrooms were often overcrowded, dirty, ill-ventilated, and insufficiently heated. The employment of little errand girls, usually only 14 years of age… Their work was very varied – running errands, matching materials, taking out parcels, cleaning the workrooms, and often also helping in the work of the house. To be at the beck and call of all employed in a busy workshop was arduous and fatiguing. They could work legally from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and often were sent out from the workshop a few minutes before 8 p.m. to take a dress to a customer living some distance away, which resulted in their not reaching home until a late hour. It was not surprising that the young persons in those workshops often looked weary and overdone; but there were plenty of girls to take their place, so they would not give in.

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

I started working when I was 9 or 10.

I don’t like the work but mother is dead and father brought me down [to the mines.] I had no choice. I have a harness on like a horse and pull carts. Large carts hold seven and a half hundredweight. [750 lbs.]

I've been working since I was five!

I've been working since I'm 9 years old.

I've been working since I was 7.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

I used to work from 7 A.M. till 3 A.M.

My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people.

The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I wouldn't say I'm the anchor, I'm the one person who sees everyone at work - I don't get to see a lot of people outside of work too much because I'm there all the time. Everyone asks me "how you doing, have you slept?" so I know I'm working long hours.

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.

I work like a dog.