24 Metaphors for employer

The employer is now generally a corporation or a huge company of some kind; the employee is one of hundreds or of thousands brought together, not by individual masters whom they know and with whom they have personal relations, but by agents of one sort or another.

All her employers were her friends, but this one was a woman of rare intelligence and culture, who had loved Draxy ever since the day she had found her reading a little volume of Wordsworth, one of the Free Library books, while she was eating her dinner in the sewing-room.

Later she went to the sitting-room where her employer was once more absorbing comfort from a cup.

The plan tends to break up the trade-unions, which is one of the reasons that the employers like it, and is the main reason that organized labor opposes it.

Bob's hard employer, Mr. Scrooge, and one for old and for young, for sick and for well, for Father Christmas and for Father Crachit and for all the little Crachits;for everyone everywhere who had heard the holiday bells, there was a toast given.

The nominal employer or manager is not the real employer.

The employer is middleman, not to a great degree the ultimate consumer of labor.

But the employers were no fonder of high wages than they are to-day.

It was very lucky for Mr. Carley that his employer was so easy and indolent a master; for there were many small matters at the Grange which would have hardly borne inspection, and it would have been difficult for Sir David to come there without making some discovery to his bailiff's disadvantage.

My employer is a spiritualist, and my stepfather is a professional Medium, and my mother is a spiritualist.

My employer,or bos, as we called him,had formerly been a schoolmaster, and he did not wholly neglect our instructions in other things besides cotton-spinning.

But his employer is also very often his landlord.

His employer was a captain of a fishing boat.

His employers were big and prosperous lumber people; clever men at their job, but Shillito gambled with their money for some time before they got on his track.

Baker was merely rehearsing Falstaff; but the two men made up their little minds that he had lost his head, and they felt quite sure that their employer was a dangerous lunatic, when he gave them a piercing glance, and cried: "Soft!

The real employer of labour is capital, and it is to the owners of the capital in any business that we must chiefly look for the exercise of such responsibility as rightly subsists between employer and employed.

The employer is middleman, not to a great degree the ultimate consumer of labor.

Strictly between ourselves, the said revered employer is an annointed fraud.

Your employer is perhaps Old, or Veteran, or Superannuated, which may Hinder, or Delay, or Retard the success of your application.

My employers, Mr. Seigerman, are practical cowmen, and they know that those steers never left the range without help.

I don't like it, Mr. Askew, and if my employer was not your uncle, I'd heave the old boat round.

Employers who in the enjoyment of this superior position pay bare subsistance wages, and defend themselves by the plea that they pay the "market rate," are "sweaters," and the blame of sweating will rightly attach to them.

He habitually evinced great severity in the women's workshop, for he had hitherto held the view that an employer who jested with his workgirls was a lost man.

Employers know that their workpeople are human beings, of like feelings and passions with themselves, and like themselves, endowed with no mean degree of independent spirit and natural intelligence; and working men know better than beforetime that their employers are not all the heartless tyrants which it has been too fashionable to encourage them to believe.

24 Metaphors for  employer