Random Thoughts — Page 24

Saw these displays at a business supply store in Orillia today:

Here's a thing my mother found from an old newspaper:

The following office rules were posted in 1872 by the owner of a Boston carriage works as a guide to his white-collar workers:

- Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves and showcases.
- Each day fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks. Wash the windows once a week.
- Each clerk will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business.
- Make your pens carefully. You may whittle the nibs to your individual taste.
- The office will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two if they go to church regularly.
- After an employee has spent 13 hours in the office, he should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books.
- Every employee should lay aside from each pay a goodly part of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so that he will not become a burden on society.
- An employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, or frequents pool halls or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give us good reason to suspect his worth, intentions and integrity.
- The employee who has performed his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from business permit it.

First thought: The employer is a massive cheapskate who will not hire cleaners. Secondly: I don't wanna sit around reading when I could be at home! Third: Five cents after five years would be laughable even then.

Yeah, I'm guessing it was considered a low class establishment, so it made them suspicious of a man's character. :p

Either that or Magnum. Or El Tigre. Or Ferrari.

1. The Simpsons - "Homer at the Bat"
2. It's Ken Griffey Jr., showing the signs of his nerve tonic addiction.

That was a great episode. I dunno which fate was funniest. Maybe Ozzie's. :p

^Just what I was thinking. ;)