10 rules for employees
18 May 2009
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Recently I visited with Mike, one of my previous customers, who gave me an interesting list of 10 rules for employees. Every new employee who enters his plant has the first step to a partnership in the shape of these ten rules handed them on a printed card:
Rule I
Don’t lie. It wastes my time and yours. I’m sure to catch you in the end, and that’s the wrong end.
Don’t lie. It wastes my time and yours. I’m sure to catch you in the end, and that’s the wrong end.
Rule II
Watch your work, not the clock. A long day’s work makes a long day short and a short day’s work makes my face long.
Watch your work, not the clock. A long day’s work makes a long day short and a short day’s work makes my face long.
Rule III
Give me more than I expect and I’ll pay you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you’ll increase my profits.
Give me more than I expect and I’ll pay you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you’ll increase my profits.
Rule IV
You owe so much to yourself that you can’t afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or out of my employ.
You owe so much to yourself that you can’t afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or out of my employ.
Rule V
Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men like good women can’t see temptation when they meet it.
Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men like good women can’t see temptation when they meet it.
Rule VI
Mind your own business and in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind.
Mind your own business and in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind.
Rule VII
Don’t do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The employee who is willing to steal for me is capable of stealing from me.
Don’t do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The employee who is willing to steal for me is capable of stealing from me.
Rule VIII
It’s none of my business what you do at night, but if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you ‘ll last half as long as you hope.
It’s none of my business what you do at night, but if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you ‘ll last half as long as you hope.
Rule IX
Don’t tell me what I’d like to hear but what I ought to hear. I don’t want a valet to my vanity, but I need lots of them for my dollars.
Don’t tell me what I’d like to hear but what I ought to hear. I don’t want a valet to my vanity, but I need lots of them for my dollars.
Rule X
Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth while correcting you’re worth while’ keeping. I don’t waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples.
Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth while correcting you’re worth while’ keeping. I don’t waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples.
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