THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 135, 29 May 1908, Page 3

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Il i- „iie,i a problem to know jn-l ' «hat is the right thing lo do in regard nation. Conditions differ greatly, and what is right in one place may be at least unwise in another. A woman worked for one lirm twenty years, and then got a week's notice that 'she would no longer be needed. Impiiiy brought out the fact that the firm had decided several months before to let her go after the busy -.easim was over, but refrained from telling her for fear she would leave them before they could spare her. or thai sic would not do her work as well if she knew she was to In another instance a man gave his

employer two weeks' not ice Ol his intended leaving, thinking to do the fair ] thing, 'the employer ..aid the resignation could take effect at once. It is but iusl to say that such instances ib t fairly represent the spirit of the business world. Isolated iulaiices of perverted human nature form tlie poorest possible basis for ordinary action. Kverv man is entitled to "a square deal." An honourable employer, even though provoked to extreme measures, will not turn an employee suddenly adrift without some human consideration of where the change wil ive him. Even when a man ceases to U- an employee he is still human. An honourable employee will avoid leaving his employer in a predicament, -and he ow«ii to himself to leave an Imnnurabb record behind him.