These are the work rules if you went to work for the Geiger Company in 1872. If you think you have it bad at your work, listen to this:
- Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves and showcases.
- Each day, fill lamps, clean chimneys, turn wicks. Wash windows once a week.
- Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business.
- Make your pens carefully. You may whittle your nibs to your individual taste.
- The office will open at 7:00 am and close at 9:00 pm every day except on the Sabbath, on which day it will remain closed. Each employee is expected to spend the Sabbath Day attending Church and contributing liberally to the cause of the Lord.
- Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church. [This is interesting, because they never mention that the women were given this same thing. I imagine the men were out there alone.]
- After an employee has spent 13 hours of labor in the office, he should spend time reading the Bible or other good books while contemplating the glories of building up the Kingdom.
- Every employee should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings so that he will not become a burden upon the charity of his betters.
- The employee who has performed his labors faithfully and without fault for a period of five years in my service, and who has been thrifty and attentive to his religious duties, is looked upon by his fellow man as substantial and law abiding, and will be given an increase of 5 cents per week in his pay.
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