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Show By Thomas Collins Employee rearing 65 is he tempted to cheat? TPHE business executives who are setting the policies for the large companies of the country are smarter and richer than anybody. any-body. They don't need my help. However, some interesting little rackets are going on among the older employees in some of their companies, and I would like to pass my information along to them. Not to help them, necessarily, neces-sarily, but possibly in a left-handed left-handed way to help the people who are running the little rackets. This week a man came along who put into focus the information informa-tion I had received in the letters. He retired a year and a half ago from a corporation job that was just under the vice-president level. He apparently knows whereof he speaks. And here is how he spoke: "The working man in a company com-pany who knows he is going to be retired at age 65 can't gyp the company very much. He can push his sick leave to the limit and loaf it through in the afternoon. But that's about all. "Once an employee gets above the working stiff level, and faces arbitrary retirement, all sorts of intriguing things can begin to happen. This applies especially to the employees who have dealings on their jobs with any business or institution outside their own companies. com-panies. "The man who is concerned with purchasing anything for his company is obviously in the best " position to benefit. If he thinks he needs another job after his company com-pany retires him, he is naturally inclined to butter the bread of the most promising firm from which he makes his purchases. This is his best connection for a retirement retire-ment job. Any executive who thinks some employees in such positions don't do some bread-buttering bread-buttering simply doesn't know that President McKinley is dead. "The employee who has anything any-thing to do with the hiring of personnel can carry favors all the way from the government employment services through the private employment agencies to Bill Jones's nephew. An employee who is concerned with distribution of the company's product can sometimes dispense favors from the credit houses to the trucking lines." What this man says tends to smear all supervisory employees who are coming down the stretch toward retirement. It shouldn't because there are many fine employees em-ployees of large companies who will do or die for dear old Rutgers to the bloody end and never sell their companies short. Still, it behooves the business executives of our time to re-explore the whole subject of arbitrary arbi-trary retirement for employees 'n key positions. I rather doubt that any employee could seriously hurt his company by throwing a favor to the Smith firm Instead of the Jones firm. There are too many checks and balances. But certainly cer-tainly it is not a healthy situation when a key employee operates on the edge of a precipice which he does from age 63 on when he knows he has to retire at 65. For a copy of the new Golden Years booklet by Thomas Collins, send 35 cents in coin (no stamps; to liept. "NWNS," Hex l;s. Grand Central Station, New York 17, N. V. |