Tag: work

  • I moved out

    I moved out

    The house was three hours’ drive from work. Then a lousy one bedroom flat, With half the room bending with the roof Then the house had no heating The other had a stream that ran from the kitchen to the street through the living room And the electricity installed 30 years ago Notary and municipal…

  • Pressed

    Pressed

    She was a nurseAt the hospital all the time Full-timeHe was a merchant He travelled all the time Full-time And they had beautiful children So far so good……
Until… Until it lasted more than ten years… She worked full-time Except when she worked day and night He worked full-time Not counting his travellingOnly three days a…

  • Resume

    Resume

    Experience required Degree level is a must. Who can afford To work for free or for a low wage And this for long hours a week And over several months or even years? The best? Or rather those who are like fish in water Well heeled ambitious ones? A few lazy sloths, Who make others…

  • Basic Income is possible.

    Basic Income is possible.

    A basic income is simply a sum of money paid every month to everyone to provide decent food and housing. The Instrument of freedom – Philippe Van Parijs – TeD-xTalks: https://youtu.be/GP4sBGbeF8w – Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash…- Rutger Bretman – TeDTalks: https://youtu.be/ydKcaIE6O1k Spain’s UBI Is A Wake-Up Call For Americans, Current…

  • What you work for matters!

    What you work for matters!

    Peaceful environment for privileged people or efficient people who manage to live peacefully together and become priviledged? “Work must be placed above all competitive struggles. It is not a commodity.”. Albert Thomas  “My Life is My Message” Gandhi The basic income should be insured so that workers are not compelled to work for immoral causes.…

  • Brainstorm

    Brainstorm

    Brainstorm Jacques Higelin – J’suis qu’un grain de poussière : https://youtu.be/GN8nt48lEzc What is dust made of? – Michael Marder – TED-Ed: https://youtu.be/P21a5Uty-uc Jacques Higelin: “je voulais faire tout péter”- TV5monde: https://youtu.be/mSvSb4KK0-A  

  • “I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”.

    “I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”.

    Stephen Hawking – A brief history of time by Errol Morris (film 1991)

  • “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”

    “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”

    Steve Jobs The quote is from the book Steve Jobs in his own words by George Beahm

  • Work

    Work

    Work (1915) – Charlie Chaplin : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006313 —Moving Picture World synopsis Charles Chaplin, assistant to a paperhanger, is called with his boss to decorate a beautiful home. The boss makes him haul the wagon with all the paraphernalia upon the top of which he rides. Chaplin, dragging the wagon with difficulty, blocks traffic, bumps into a…

  • Jiro’s art of working

    Jiro’s art of working

    Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) – IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925 ILO Director-General on the future of work – BBC interview: https://youtu.be/G4vlZ7N5Is8 ILO Director-General participates in future of work debate in Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExpLqGugac The future of work we want – International Labour Office: http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-work/lang–en/index.htm