Michelle Visage Quotes

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.

Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs.

I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident they'll always have a job.

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

I am telling you, you can’t play politics with people’s jobs.

I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over forty who need work are finding themselves. …. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should exist for at forty a man or woman should be at their best and have experience and poise and patience all of which should make meeting certain problems of work easier.

This is a political season where politicians will do almost anything to prey on the public’s fear of job loses.