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A mischaracterization of an informal workplace that is populated by people with MDs and PhDs who are in their 20s and 30s who are, you know, underpaid and together long hours and it’s just not a viper pit of sexual harassment the way that the Whitehead statement made it sound. – David Sabatini	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We got enough people in our ranks that were like,' This may not be impossible anymore. And it may be incredibly necessary.' Because in years prior, I think people could hang onto the fact that things were bad, but not bad enough, it wasn't until after Covid — when we went in with less people, being overworked, underpaid, inflation out of control. – Monica Garza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are overworked, underpaid and understaffed, am I happy with what they did? No, I’m not. What I want to show, though, is how easily we can send damaging messages to our children. – Courtesy Ashley Heun	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re understaffed, underpaid, so when they have the ability to bring a case to the prosecutor’s office, to not have it prosecuted is demoralizing, because they know that nine times out of 10 they’re gonna run into this person again. – Jane Dueker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are cases where people are overpaid, there are cases where people are underpaid. The issue is, we need to come up with an agreement to extend this. – Steven Mnuchin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In hindsight, I believe I was being tokenized as a fat Black woman and underpaid for my work. – Sesali Bowen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
[ Vice's ] contract establishes salary minimums, which have been crucial in bringing those who were underpaid -- including most of our writers, editors, contractors and freelance writers -- up to industry standards, we also were able to secure annual cost-of-living wage increases and standardized job descriptions across the unit. – Leah Carroll	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar, no one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction. – Brett Kavanaugh	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We would usually divide the tickets in a ‘ticket draft’ at my house. Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar. No one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction. – Brett Kavanaugh	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This statement is extremely disgusting and blatantly homophobic, these are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time. – Bisi Alimi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
These are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time. – Bisi Alimi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The migrants, they want to travel to England, they know that you can work without papers in England. They are underpaid. As long as the English don't change the rules, we going to have problems, either the English budge, genuinely and seriously, or we give them back their border. – Xavier Bertrand	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If I were to underpay my staff as much as the university is underpaid, I would lose my staff. – Richard C. Blum	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago

A mischaracterization of an informal workplace that is populated by people with MDs and PhDs who are in their 20s and 30s who are, you know, underpaid and together long hours and it’s just not a viper pit of sexual harassment the way that the Whitehead statement made it sound.

– David Sabatini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We got enough people in our ranks that were like,' This may not be impossible anymore. And it may be incredibly necessary.' Because in years prior, I think people could hang onto the fact that things were bad, but not bad enough, it wasn't until after Covid — when we went in with less people, being overworked, underpaid, inflation out of control.

– Monica Garza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are overworked, underpaid and understaffed, am I happy with what they did? No, I’m not. What I want to show, though, is how easily we can send damaging messages to our children.

– Courtesy Ashley Heun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re understaffed, underpaid, so when they have the ability to bring a case to the prosecutor’s office, to not have it prosecuted is demoralizing, because they know that nine times out of 10 they’re gonna run into this person again.

– Jane Dueker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are cases where people are overpaid, there are cases where people are underpaid. The issue is, we need to come up with an agreement to extend this.

– Steven Mnuchin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In hindsight, I believe I was being tokenized as a fat Black woman and underpaid for my work.

– Sesali Bowen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

[ Vice's ] contract establishes salary minimums, which have been crucial in bringing those who were underpaid -- including most of our writers, editors, contractors and freelance writers -- up to industry standards, we also were able to secure annual cost-of-living wage increases and standardized job descriptions across the unit.

– Leah Carroll

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar, no one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We would usually divide the tickets in a ‘ticket draft’ at my house. Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar. No one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This statement is extremely disgusting and blatantly homophobic, these are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

– Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

– Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The migrants, they want to travel to England, they know that you can work without papers in England. They are underpaid. As long as the English don't change the rules, we going to have problems, either the English budge, genuinely and seriously, or we give them back their border.

– Xavier Bertrand

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I were to underpay my staff as much as the university is underpaid, I would lose my staff.

– Richard C. Blum

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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