Sandi Toksvig

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

British Writer

Sabaa Tahir

When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.

Pakistani Writer

Robert Mueller

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

American Public Servant

Peter Drucker

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.

American Businessman

Jaime Harrison

The reality is that front-line workers like restaurant servers, bus drivers and retail store clerks - whose jobs require person-to-person interactions - do not have the luxury of being able to 'work from home.

American Politician

Wallace Shawn

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

American Actor

Joycelyn Elders

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

Keith Allen

If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you I would go out of my way to be a bank clerk.

Welsh Actor

John Paul Stevens

I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.

Judge

Lisa McMann

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

American Author

Refers to employees who handle paperwork, files, and administrative tasks within an office setting.

Office Role

A clerk is usually not in a managerial position; they typically report to supervisors.

Not a Manager

In retail, a clerk helps customers with purchases, answers questions, and manages transactions.

Customer Service

In legal or governmental contexts, clerks focus on documentation, records, and administrative proceedings.

Record Keeper

Clerks often handle sensitive information, especially in legal and governmental offices.

Confidential Tasks

In courts or parliament, the clerk can be an official title with ceremonial or procedural duties.

Formal Title

Historically, 'clerk' linked to clergy, but this usage is now old-fashioned and less common.

Clergy Connotation

 hopeful well I went into the courtroom soon as I walked inside the judge saw me coming and he said mr. Stevenson did you write this crazy motion I said yes sir I didn't we started arguing people started coming in because they were just outraged I had written these crazy things and police officers were coming in and system prosecutors and clerk

We need to talk about an...

 by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker. This might all sound like a bawdy joke, but it’s part of one of the most esteemed works of English literature ever

Everything you need to...

 At the same time, there's nothing more important to me than the kids in my life, so I found myself in a situation that we so often find ourselves in, torn between two things, two impossible choices. Would I be an advocate? Would I take my niece off my shoulders and turn to the clerk and explain to her

Ash Beckham: When to...

 is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer,

What will future jobs...

 I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father. Working six days a week as a patent clerk,

Einstein's miracle year...

 they read scripts. They act more like machines than humans. And unfortunately, over the next few years, as our technology gets more advanced, they, along with people like clerks and bookkeepers, will see the vast majority of their work disappear.

Why jobs of the future...

 just can't do that that'll be an international scandal and based on that Hitler backed off he said well okay then shoot fifty percent and I always thought it was ironic just the way history works out that some clerk or somebody dropped

POW Escape Thwarted PIPE...

 Now thankfully, the person was caught, arrested and charged to court. When I get into court, the clerks who were assigned to my sister's case informed her that they wouldn't be able to process the paperwork unless she paid a bribe.

Reducing corruption...

 Today's pandemic makes this clear. It reveals how deeply we rely on workers we often overlook. Delivery workers, maintenance workers, grocery store clerks, warehouse workers, truckers,