In economics, discouraged workers is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who does not find employment after long-term unemployment. This is usually because an individual has given up looking or has had no success in finding a job, hence the term "discouraged". A discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.
The top five reasons for discouraged workers are the following:
1)The worker thinks no work is available.
2) The worker could not find work.
3) The worker lacks schooling or training.
4) The worker is viewed as too young or too old by the prospective employer.
5) The worker is the target of various types of discrimination.
1)The worker thinks no work is available.
2) The worker could not find work.
3) The worker lacks schooling or training.
4) The worker is viewed as too young or too old by the prospective employer.
5) The worker is the target of various types of discrimination.
by yyuryyubicuryy4me January 12, 2019
As a government worker he spent his 35 hours a week in the office emailing friends, surfing the net and periodically pretending to be busy by interfering with some innocent citizen's life.
by A civil servant June 23, 2006
What the term, "Worker's Compensation" is to Butt-Head on the Beavis and Butt-Head episode, "Work is Death".
{Burger World Manager}: Be careful in the kitchen, Burger world can not afford to pay out any more Worker's Compensation.
Butthead: Uhhh, Worker's Constipation?
Beavis: Yeah, yeah, I get that all the time at work when I can't take a poop.
Butthead: Uhhh, Worker's Constipation?
Beavis: Yeah, yeah, I get that all the time at work when I can't take a poop.
by Telephony July 20, 2020
When an employee abuses their lunch break and either uses the corporate card to pay, or takes extra time and later claims it was a business lunch.
You gotta love worker's chomp, today I was out from 11-3 while i told my boss i was meeting a client for lunch. to top it off, i paid for me and my mistress on the corporate card!
by itaub1 May 19, 2009
An individual whom possesses neither physical nor intellectual competence and is best suited working in the deep mine shafts of Mars for the remaining duration of their life.
Xavier is so fucking stupid I heard they sent him up to Mars to collect minerals. What a dumb fucking Mars worker!
by TallGuyKai June 21, 2020
A lazy idiot that pretends to be conservative but lacks a work ethic and is always slacking on the job. Especially true with government workers and hypocrites.
Jay votes Republican and says he is conservative but spends all day at work on Facebook looking at women just like a Trump worker. This is especially bad because he is the sexual harassment director.
by realrepublican1 February 5, 2017
A "worker drone" is a man who accepts the social role of working full time for an income that he will give away to a woman or to support his family. His intention isn't necessarily altruistic, but in practice his actions become self-denying to the point of nihilism. This social role is strongly distinct from the "alpha male" and largely coincides with the "wage slave" and "beta provider." The term comes from the role of drones in a bee hive.
"Bill used to be a lot of fun until he married Cecelia; how he's just a worker drone."
"Promise you'll shoot me if I ever become a worker drone."
"Promise you'll shoot me if I ever become a worker drone."
by jackfelldown October 11, 2013