How Good Were They?
Zig Ziglar
Most of us make the comment, "Things are not what they used to be --oh, for those "good ol' days"!
Question: How far do we want to go back? "Quotable Business" authorLouis E. Boone lists "Eight Rules for Office Workers in 1872":
-- Office employees each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trimwicks. Wash windows once a week.
-- Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coalfor the day's business.
-- Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individualtaste.
-- Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courtingpurposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church.
-- After 13 hours of labor in the office, the employee should spendremaining time reading the Bible and other good books.
-- Every employee should lay aside from each payday a goodly sum ofhis earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so he willnot become a burden on society.
-- Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form orfrequents pool and public halls or gets shaved in a barbershop willgive good reason to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity andhonesty.
-- The employee, who has performed his labor faithfully and withoutfault for five years, will be given an increase of 5 cents per day inhis pay, providing profits from business permit it.
Appreciate the good things we have today, and we will have somethingto smile about.
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