Working Stiff


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Working Stiff

Informal; an employee in a non-management position, especially one who is treated poorly. The term often is used in reference to tensions between corporate authorities and those under them.
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And there's John Cothran--grandson and namesake of Sheriff John Ed Cothran of infamous Greenwood (Leflore County) in the Delta--a "working stiff" whose good heart and bad temper have left him with four broken marriages, who works as a floor manager at Home Depot and a second job stocking shelves at the Kroger supermarket to pay child support for the kids he loves, and whose ambition is a double-wide trailer in an all-white development outside Senatobia.
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You know what I mean?") He comes off as a working stiff just trying to understand as best as he can--hardly a formidable opponent for Anita.
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This is not the same thing as some poor, ignorant working stiff who comes home and blows off outlandish steam about foreigners and welfare queens.
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"The Measure of a Man" contemplates the extent to which an ordinary working stiff will compromise his integrity in the name of making ends meet.
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It was a place a working stiff could go for a decent meal, the place a guy could take a date for some live music and dancing.
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But that was an essential element in the offense: To be guilty of aggravated treason, you have to be a leader, not just a working stiff. They claimed some people were planning to seize the National Congress, take hostages, and demand the release of MRTA prisoners in exchange.
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Opposing both socialism and nationalism for the lofty reason that they would wreak havoc upon the average working stiff would be a pretty good place to start.
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