Show THE BOSS TO TO RUFUS I IA A Word About the Shortsightedness of Getting the Whistle Habit New York Sun Rufus said the boss youre start starting startIng starting ing in wrong This idea of yours that the boss is going to get out of or you ou all he can for forthe forthe forthe the money Is right but your our idea that you aint going to do any more than you get paid for tor that you aint going to give the boss something for nothing is about as foolish as it could be Its about as sure a way as you could find of ot always keeping yourself down and never amounting to anything at all Of course the tho boss wants all hb can get out of oC you for what he pays you why he When you any anything anything anything thing you want till full f I value for your money dont you Why you ou give full value when you sell You sax sa you do give a full day ay a full square day but you dont Bee rea reason reason reason son why you should give any more why you should make the hess a present of anything valuable How foolish you found one grocer who when he sold you a pound of sugar gave you down plump gen generous generous generous erous weight and md another who gave you a pound but looked sharp all the time to see that he give you OU a agrain agrain agrain grain more Which grocer would you patronize Eh Eli Dont you OU suppose the man you work for likes men m n who give down plump generous weight in work Dont you suppose that sort of or man manthe manthe manthe the boss likes to do business with and that he keeps that the sort of man that always has work whether anybody else does or not Dont be satisfied with giving just full measure of ot work with doing your stent Take an interest in the business and do all you can and dont be afraid of responsibility Make yourself valuable as well as useful Going home on the sUbway last night I heard two business men talk talking talkIng talking ing shop together and one of them was telling the other about some changes that fie lie had just made in his store It seems that this man had working for Cor him two young men who had both been with him some time but one long longer er than the other and getting more pay pa After a while the next nest man still higher up than these two young men went out and somebody had to be promoted to his place Naturally the man to go up would have hae been that one of those two who had been there longest but said this man who was doing the talking the other man who been there thereso so long was now the better bettor man They were both good faithful f I de desirable desirable men you understand both workers but the man who had been there longer could only do what he was set to da do while the other had go ahead In him and he afraid he was as ready to meet and tackle anything that came along and able to get away with it a good man in the business And says sas the man who was telling this I hated to have to promote the junior over the seniors head and the senior was older in years ears too but what else could I do Suppose you ou were In iii business for yourself Rufus RuCus and suppose got in that business every dollar you could rake and scrape be interested In that business you Well some be more than Interested ouI be anxious and plug In and work ork harder than anybody you could hire besides taking all the risk have your our troubles yes more than anybody else In the shop and want to get all the work that was waa coming to you out of or the men you hired Naturally Now suppose you had working for you two to men one of them having the Idea that he going to do anything he paid for and the other man who pitched in inand Inand inand and did everything he lie could and worked for the good of the business keeping that In mind all the time and not thinking about himself not caring a snap whether hether he stayed a minute late lat lator or an hour our Which one of those two men do you think oud like better and which one onedo onedo onedo do you think you ou would advance the pay of and promote and hang on to an an easY ne it Now suppose this man that thinking of himself all the time but was thinking of how he could help your business should turn out also to be beable beable beable able and capable and courageous not only devoted but able to do things dont you suppose help him all you could If you had a grain g fn of sense you would and I think you have got some sense and why Im talking to you What I am telling you Is dont be afraid that somebody is 18 going to get gel the best of you Ou the only man that can cando cando cando do that is yourself Dont get the whistle habit get as far away from that as you can Here Is Just one more pointer Dont be If It you dont get promoted the first minute JIbe TOie he boss has been disappointed many man a time in men who started in grand style and petered out the next month or year to get there youve youe got to be a get there all right If you are |