Dictionary definition of “steady ticket”

steady ticket

n. regular part-time or temporary employment. Subjects: English, Employment

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Citations: 1983 George Getschow Wall Street Journal (June 22) “Dirty Work” p. 20: As many day laborers see it, their best hope is to happen to get a steady “ticket” to one company for several weeks and make such a good impression there that they are offered a job. 1995 James D. Davis Sun-Sentinel ( Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) (July 9) “The Lord’s Work” p. 1E: “Praise the Lord! I’ve got a steady ticket here,” says Jose Alza, a Trinity employee who has worked at the plant for three months. 1998 Bradly E. Peterson Usenet: rec.arts.comics.misc (June 6) “Re: Industry in trouble stats”: I worked day labor for quite some time before I realized how “tied” you end up being to that dead-end…I mean, you get paid every day, but if you wanna keep getting paid, you gotta come back every day. If you’re sick and miss a day, your steady ticket goes to someone else. 2001 James B. Meadow, Hector Gutierrez Rocky Mountain News (Colo.) (Sept. 3) “Life Is Hard At The Bottom” p. 5A: At least three days a week, however, Atencio has a steady “ticket.” In other words, through the labor pool he works 12-hour shifts at a large printing press. 2001 Jonna Lorenz Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kan.) (Sept. 28) “Demand lower in wake of attacks” p. A7: At the beginning of this month, the plant went back to a five-day work week for its employees, while keeping production at a lower level. “My preference is to run consistently.…If that means running a steady ticket but a lower number of tires every day then, as a rule, that’s what I prefer to do.” 2003 Michael Oatman Free Times (Clevland, Ohip) (Aug. 27) “The Graveyard Shift”: I land a job by taking the place of a man who works what is called “a steady ticket.” These are temporary jobs that are regularly offered through the agency. The fact that the “steady ticket” is in a graveyard did not bother me; in fact, it sounded very peaceful. 2004 M. Blake 3711 Atlantic (Summer) “Birmingham”: The temps weren’t happy with these developments. The day before, it looked like they would all be on a steady ticket for a while—perhaps a couple months worth of work—and now the day after they didn’t know if they would work the rest of that week. 2005 Mike Benedetti Worcester IMC (May 11) “Working in Worcester”: I have what they call a steady ticket, so I’ve been going out to the same place now for almost a year. 2006 Rick Rousos The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Feb. 26) “Day work is his way up from drugs”: He’s on the upper rung with his $9.50 per-hour paycheck. Even better, he has what’s called a “steady ticket,” meaning he has the same job every day.

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