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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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Wall Street is about as close as it has ever been to being full of working stiffs.
Time to stop blaming Wall Street
For all the questionable utility of some programs of study in both high school and institutes of "higher learning," it seems there is room for programs with the explicit objective of teaching our youth the basics of survival in the world of working stiffs.
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Ira Aronin: "Unions can be corrupt like any organization, but the increasing gap between the very wealthy and the working stiffs can be tied directly to union busting and the decline of unionized labor in this country.
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My friends' dogs were nondescript working stiffs with foxy muzzles and pointy ears.
Mutt mystique: what they lack in pedigree, they often make up for in brains
They're a couple of working stiffs who live near Reno, Nev.
A shine to California Chrome
The lucky septet all work at Gold Star Auto Repair Shop in Queens, including the behind-the-counter sales staff and working stiffs fixing cars.
'Lucky' bet never really pays off
com bubble, when a ballooning stock market inflated CEO compensation to 411 times that of working stiffs.
US CEOs paid 231 times more than average workers
Abramson and her type do not much care what working stiffs think of them.
Those racist police
In John 13 Jesus teaches his disciples--married working stiffs all--to get up from the table, put on an apron, and do some serious domestic labor.
Clothes minded: retro uniforms may be fashionable on screen, but they fail to show how far women have made it in the workplace
Common working stiffs are the bedrock of the economy, and its baseline.
I think the first rule of being normal, aside from watching rugby, is to learn to suck it up and keep my mouth shut. Don't talk religious metaphysics where anyone can hear you
America is increasingly looking like imperial Britain, with dynastic ties proliferating, social circles interlocking, mechanisms of social exclusion strengthening, and a gap widening between the people who make decisions and shape the culture and the vast majority of working stiffs.
Occupy Wall Street Destined to Victory
If that dream technology were real, CosmoD would have jumper-cabled up a vast crew of working stiffs.
Making work a garden, not a nightmare
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