PERTINENT POINTS FOR PEOPLE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 263, 30 March 1917, Page 3

PERTINENT POINTS FOR PEOPLE.

To the Postal Department Officials. No. 6 (Contributed.) Remember that you are Civil Servants and adopt a supercilious and lordly attitude when any of the vulgar public dare to approach you on any matter. Be sure and tell them that you only owe allegiance to the Government. Don't let people entertain the absurd idea that because in one way or another they pay to the national revenue they are your masters or that any civility on your part is due to them. If a busy tradesman enters the post office pretend to be adding up figures or counting your money. It will do him good to cool his heels for a bit. It is not conducive to good health for one to be always on the rush and as the tradesman has longer business hours than you it wont do bim any harm to keep him waiting. If you are open at night-time for telegraph business and anyone asks you to obligehim by letting him have a stamp don't hesitate to inform him that such is against the regulations and that you are surprised as his audacity in asking you to break the Department's rules Generally, like the miners, accept the "Go Slow" policy—it will impress the public of your importance. If you happen to be a telephone operator " sauce " the subscribers as much as you can and certainly don't for goodness sake be too quick in attending to rings. Make the users of the telephone thoroughly understand that you are tremendously overworked and that your Exchange ought to have two or three more operators. Chip in with conversations at frequent intervals as thereby you may get to know a thing or two and then you can relate to your friends any interes'ing items that you have overheard. If anyone threatens to report you for insolence give him a little more " sauce." You can always rely on your boss refusing to entertain the justification of any complaint a* otherwise it might be thought he did not exercise proper supervision over you.