HOW GOOD ARE YOUR IDEAS ANTHONY W irving park road chicago illinois was told when he started to work that the man he was to work for was one of the smartest men in the machine shop business after working with him for several weeks anthony agreed that he was a smart man he liked anthony and he told him that he was going to teach him the tricks of ane trade As they worked together anthony would get ideas of his own about improving the jobs and he would tell his boss who would listen look at him and say tony your ideas are good but they am t worth a damn this went on for ten years anthony s ideas were considered not worth a damn this worried him for he knew some of them were good their superintendent was in an auto accident which didn dian t appear serious at first but a week eek later he died anthony s boss was moved up into the superintendent spot leaving a good job open there were a number of men in the plant who would mould be considered and an anthony dAnthony was afraid he didn dian t nave have a chance A few days later he was called into the main office all of the directors of the company were there one said tony I 1 understand yc have a lot of ideas that aren t worth orth m a damn so you are elected to run the machine shop anthony was stunned all he could say was do my best last year checking took place in his peak year anthony produced controls with 85 employ emp loyes es where formerly there were produced 75 to 85 controls as the peak year with 75 employed emp loyes he says maybe he wash t glad he stuck to the job with ideas that t worth a damn