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Show DRIVING THE FACT HOME "There are," observes a Boston business man, "various methods, diplomatic or brusque, of notifying an unsatisfactory employee of his dismissal. dis-missal. The pink, or tho yellow envelope, is, I suppose, the favorite, but there are other ways. "The most picturesque and original of methods meth-ods was that which an old printer in Boston used to employ in his office. When a new man came he would drive a nail in the wall for the newcomer new-comer for him to hang his coat and hat on. Some morning the man would come to work and find the nail driven in up to the head. He knew that he was through then." |