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Show V TrfTn -- ' - - "t - i - - ' ' n '' Let Him Think He's Boss EORGE AjrjfLETON, now of Chicago, formerly was the head of the shipping department in a plant in an eastern seaport sea-port town. The foreman of the plant, to put it kindly, was not in the least popular. If anything was asked of him he ranted and raved, threw his arms about, and swore at the pitch of his voice. George says he knows now that was the way this foreman got his feeling of importance, and his antics revealed his T3L, spirit o' frustration in not being looked up to. 5v' One day George received a call from a i im, man in the New York office saying that-one $Pf' f their export customers had made a mis- I vT Tf take on a delivery promise that had been I Xf i given him. This man had committed him-sjO? him-sjO? V se lor space on a steamer sailing the fol-lowing fol-lowing day, whereas the promise of the plant f called for delivery ten days later. George tv i was asked to see what he could do about it. Naturally, George wanted to make good Carnegie when called upon for help by the New York office. Of such is the measure of a man! Cut there wasn't anything he could do about it without the cooperation of the foreman. Something suddenly told George that the foreman acted as he did because he wanted to show who was boss. Well, let him demonstrate his superiority, if he did what was necessary. So he decided to approach him with a view to helping him. If that didn't work, there'd be some other way. So he checked, the order and found that of 50 bales promised, only 40 were ready for shipment. ship-ment. He went to the foreman and said, "Bill I have the opportunity oppor-tunity of shipping some of those bales that are cluttering up your shipping; but under such difficult circumstance that I hesitate to ask if even you can accomplish it." Then he explained. "Hell, that's nothing," said the foreman, "I'll have that shipment on the pier before noon tomorrow." And that foreman was as good as his word. George wrote the New York office and asked them to. write a letter thanking the foreman, which was done by no less a person than the president, of the company. The foreman never mentioned receiving the letter, but from that time on he was most pleasant to George and went out of his way to do favors for him. |