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Show OGDEN CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Part-Time School Department F. T. Wignins, Director W. Karl Hopkins, Superintendent, HOW TO GET FIRED Use employer's time, with or without notice, to visit your sick relative (real or imaginary) at his home or in the hospital. Then take a day off to attend the funeral. (Note: Don't bury the same relative more than three or four times.) Be ill frequently. Get real or imaginary headaches, or keep the one bad tooth. The boss likes to think he is employing hospital cases. Be late. The business may go along just as well without you-the boss will not mind paying you. Offer the old excuses. If late, tell the boss you were in the "subway block" or that you "had to go to the doctor's." He has heard this so often he may excuse you without thinking. Loaf on the job. If he asks why you were out so long, tell him you "couldn't find the place." Be a practical joker. If he doesn't see well, put his hat on his chair. (He will buy a new one on the salary you would otherwise receive the following week.) Be "fresh" to the employer or the foreman. Give back talk-this is a free country and no one can prevent you looking for a new job. Look around for some one else's business that you would like to attend to. Then go to it. The business for which you are paid can wait, Try to run the whole show. Maybe the boss who has had you only three weeks doesn't know that you can run the business better than he, although he has been at it some 40 years and is a bank trustee, a director in three companies and comes to work at 11 each morning in a limousine. If you were not his errand boy, he would see more of you and know your worth. Be sure to use loud, abusive, profane, indecent, cussing language. Make a big noise. Show who you are. Show the boss how you stand up for your "rights." He will be interested. He will speak to the cashier about you and give you salary due in advance of regular pay day. Take the loose change you find around or other small articles. Shoot the rubber bands and paper fasteners around--they are chea Besides, if you happen to hit the bookkeeper, there may be a little excitement. Don't think of keeping clean. "It's not the boss's business any way-is it?" Why should he notice unclean hands and dirty finger nails, muddy shoes, and soiled clothes? Maybe he never heard the story of Pig Brother. Tell a pretty story or look out the window while handling sharp tools or working at machinery. The boss probably keeps a First Aid kit, and he can get the hospital by phone. 14. Laugh when the boss slips or has an accident. He will give you time off to enjoy it at your leisure. QUESTIONS: Considering the loss of time involved compare the job-hobo with the child who is left back in school. What advantages may result from changing one's position? Make a list of the disadvantages of being fired. How may "being fired" affect securing a new position? How is a young person to find the job for which he is fitted? How is a young worker to get the permanent position that will lead to his life vocation? What is your answer for the young worker who says "I don't care, I can get another job"? |
