In fact, it was said that the few large firms pooled the bestjobs and combined to keep off outsiders.
We imagined you wouldn't like our butting in on jobs you thought were yours," Jake observed.
We have put over some hard jobsand I imagine I'm up against another now.
But, by the knell of hell's bells, Grim, more than Catesby will lose theirjobs unless we find the stuff!
So they let her stay, doing odd jobs and bossing the others just as though she were still mistress of the kitchen--as in fact she was.
Another form of job card, intended for use where jobs require more than one day, is shown in Fig.
Time wasted between jobs or on account of a breakdown or other unusual occurrence does not affect the legitimate time in which a particular job should be done.
The workman, when starting to work, takes the card for the next job, records the starting time, and places the card in the jobs started pocket.
The foreman then makes out new cards and places them in the jobs ahead rack, while the suspended card is placed in the finished jobs rack.
It is not easy to start a strike because some men lose their jobs from being late.
The cost of time shown on indirect labor cards, and of all time unaccounted for, should be charged to the department under some such caption as Department Waste, never to the specific jobs on which the man has worked.
When a large number of small jobs are going through the factory at all times, the labor of the cost department can be reduced and, as a rule, satisfactory results secured, if tabulations of job costs are made when the job is finished.
This shows the numbers of the jobs for which the material was drawn and to which the material has been transferred.
The system used in a factory, where all operatives are housed in one or more buildings, is not well adapted to the needs of a contractor whose men may be working on jobs located at points widely separated.
Knowing that a record is expected, his card will show full time, but the distribution of that time to separate jobs is not accurate.
The rack for finished jobs is divided into compartments bearing the men's numbers, with slots through which the cards are inserted.
All records of time on individual jobs or operations may be termed production time records, since the ultimate object of keeping such records is to determine the cost of production.
Totals of material costs for each job, and totals of direct labor costs for each operation and job are obtained, these amounts being the basis on which charges to jobs for the day are made.
There's waur jobs and there's better,' I said sententiously.
This is one of the jobs that it takes a man of four or five score years to perform ungrudgingly; and, to any illuminated mind, the secret of these old fellows' greatness is very plain.
He returned late in autumn when work was scarce; but his wife and he had saved money in the past two years, and he managed to live with the help of what odd jobs he could get, and without much trenching on his store till spring came round.
At first Thomas got some jobs from Mr. Hawthorn, but he soon saw that they were jobs mostly created on purpose for him, and he could not bear the thought of living on charity, no matter how disguised.
There, all day long, he either trudged wearily by the sides of the horses at plough, often nearly frozen with cold, or did rough jobs about the cattle or pigs in the muck-littered farmyard.
He eked out his parish clerkship with odd accountant jobs for surrounding farmers, and occasionally picked up a crown or two by acting as clerk at country auctions, and his greatest earthly blessing was a contested parliamentary election.
At this time Thomas was an odd or day labourer, taking contract jobs on his own account when he could get them, and working for a daily wage when these failed.
Thomas never worked again as he had been doing before he went to London, but he became strong enough to tend his garden and his allotment carefully, and to do frequent light jobs for the Scotch tenant of Whitbury farm, whose friend he became.
In any event if you're making them happier by shifting them about a bit, trying to fit them by natural adaptability to their jobs and so increasing efficiency, I am satisfied with any way you put it.
They pick us up a while and make lap dogs of us, then when we've lost our appetites for our jobs and got to having a hankerin' for the fetch and carry business away they go and forget us, so we're a lot worse off than we were before.
There, you'll be rustling for your supper, and you'll find boys hunting jobsthick as men at a ball game, and lots of them with dads to furnish their room and board.
Your work is more interesting than odd jobs on the street, and you pay like a plute.
Both of these jobs require great care and practice, and both of them we had to do two or three times before we got them right.
The labor was easy, and consisted of little more than rough jobs about the wharves, moving guns to and fro, storing shot and shell, occasionally excavating for new buildings.
Some of you have stuck to your jobs like men, in spite of the talk you've heard all about you, and I thank you.
Since the 10th of March, I don't recollect how many jobs I have been engaged in; they are so numerous I can't recollect.
His health sent him West, by sailing-vessel around Cape Horn, and he stayed in California occupied in a variety of jobs until 1866.
That such jobs were waiting by the score for an educated German in this barbarous land he never doubted for a moment.
I did odd jobs to earn my meals, and slept in the fields at night, still turning over in my mind how to get across the sea.
During his senior year, Roger, with Ernest and other promising men of the graduating class, had several jobs offered him by different manufacturing and engineering concerns.
But, as the years had gone on, it was observed that the minor jobs, obtained with difficulty by the men whom Dean Erskine had trained and recommended, nearly always became jobs of fundamental importance.
I've thought up a few jobs I'd like to tackle while you're away.
Ralph saw to it that their jobs varied from day to day as they grew lean and brown under the desert sun.
What kind of jobs have you cooked up for our new roustabouts, Ralph?
I mean Sandy and I have jobsthere too, and Four Corners is going to be awfully crowded this summer.
Hit's wunner deze yer jobs w'at las's a long time.
This type of difference is exemplified in the work of longshoremen and lumbermen; some men being engaged on one type of work are employed regularly, while men engaged on other jobs are employed irregularly or casually.
The jobs which carry the easiest opportunities for advancement in many important industries are now the subordinate positions in the various executive, administrative or sales branches.
These jobs tend to be given to young men from that section of society which has affiliations, direct or indirect, with the management of industry.
The American wage earners have usually tackled their jobs with energy, good will, and sincerity.
A parish clerk in the north of England, not long ago, hired a Scotchman for his servant, who was to go to the cart and plough, and do other occasional jobs when wanted.
Diane Ravitch stated that it is hard to define what education will be needed for the future when we don't know what skills the jobs of the future will require.
But the promise of a better material life through literacy today rings tragically hollow in the ears of graduates who cannot find jobs in their fields of study.
Nobody seriously disputes the relevance of studying language, but very few see language and language-based disciplines as the prerequisite for the less than life-long series of different jobsstudents of today will have.
Maybe that's why our jobs seem to get tougher every day.
They rarely spoke of their respective jobs in any detail, preferring to remain at a measured professional distance.
Similarly, though, such knowledge allows the motivated programmer to bypass critical portions of the Operating System to perform specific jobs and to circumvent any security measures that may be present.
You'll help wi' odd jobs in the shop, and you'll carry out light goods and parcels in t'village.
But this was justly considered as one of the most outrageous jobs which any Government ever sanctioned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jobs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
