discouraged workers

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.

by yyuryyubicuryy4me January 12, 2019

a work in progress

Something that is being progressively modified, and improved over time. Most usually used to suggest that it's happening at a rate more slowly than desired.

"How is the renovation on your house coming along?"
"It's a work in progress."

"You've been spending a lot of time at the gym. How is your fitness coming along?"
"I'm a work in progress."

by Jay Greenfield May 3, 2019

get back to work

when a slave masters tell your nigga ass to start getting in them fields before they give yo wife backshots.

Master: get back to work
9 months later
Wife: I gave birth to a mix baby

by the nigga man October 16, 2023

show your work

A request for the train of thought that lead to a given statement.

Jim: Anne sure is a tramp.
Bill: Oh yeah? Show your work.
Jim: She keeps a volumized logs of everybody she's been with's penis size.
Bill: Yeah, that's pretty trampy.

by Fancy Horse July 29, 2011

do work

From MTV's Rob and Big. Do Work is getting motivated and gettin something done. Do work as in stay busy, make moves, get it done, dont be lazy, get it up, bang out finals, make calls to ppl you usually dont, round up the troops, hammer chicks, get lit, do work. A better version of Get er done.

Nutritionist: Do you ever eat to the point where you feel overstuffed and uncomfortable?

Big Black: No, No because that means its about time to do work. Its time to go take a dump.

by JT dubs December 23, 2006

you better work

An imperative phrase used to give praise or approval to another person. Note: The subject is variable.

Syn: work, shwerk

See also: you better

Johnathon: those headshots are fierce… you better work!

**********

Rom: did u hear that john-eric hooked up with one of the bel ami boys? he better work!

by ETERNIA January 12, 2005

Work crush

The work crush is the attraction of two co-workers (the client/vendor relationship also qualifies) but the relationship is of mutual respect and admiration. Work crushes tend to get Starbucks together, chat on the phone, IM, and eat together. They spend so much time together or their interactions are so natural and easy that many think they are actually involved. The work crush is always platonic. If it turns sexual, it is no longer a crush and has now become an affair.

Suzie and John are each other's work crush. They eat lunch together everyday.

by Janice NY April 3, 2008