THE TEN DEMANDMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1243, 9 May 1914, Page 4

THE TEN DEMANDMENTS.

For gross worldly wisdom, it would be difficult to surpass the “Ten Demandments” hanging in one of the many salmon canneries at Steveston, Western Canada : 1. Don’t lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you in the end, and that is the wrong end. 2. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day’s work makes a long day short ; and a short day’s work makes my face long. 3. Give me more than I expect, and I will give you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. 4. You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt, or keep out of my shops. 5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. 6. Mind your own business, aud in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind. 7. Don’t do anything here which hurts your self-respect. An employee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me. 8. It is none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you’ll last half as long as you hoped. 9. Don’t tell me what I’d like to hear, but what 1 ought to hear. I don’t want a valet to my vanity, but one for my dollars. 10. Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth while correcting, you’re worth while keeping, I don’t waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples.