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If you work for a man......

searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
This hung in the office of a ranch I used to work on. many years later, it still holds a meaning, and a truth in my heart. FWIW.

Loyalty
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do that, you are loosening the tendrils that are holding you to the institution, and at the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and will probably never know the reason why.
Elbert Hubbard

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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,375 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nice statement

    It's not the same words but pretty well what my dad told me when I started working show respect ,do as your ask show up and give a days work , to show your thanks for the chance to work

    all that goes out the window of course when the man is a azzhat
  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dad always said if you expect an honest days pay when working for a fellow you owe him an honest days work .Doing what is right ain't always easy but it lets you sleep well at night .
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
  • victorj19victorj19 Member Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is it the same if you work for a woman?
  • grizgriz Member Posts: 425 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A lot fewer words, but the same meaning around here when we say....."Yuh Ride For The Brand."
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    The last time my Pop whooped my * with the belt, he said "Son,from now on, it's knuckles to the face".
    I was 14 and told him,"If I am doing a man's job,I demand a man's pay".
    When I woke up, i figgered out that a "kid" cannot do a "man's" job....
    [V]
  • Okie MomOkie Mom Member Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by victorj19
    Is it the same if you work for a woman?


    It is the same if you have a good work ethic and take pride in your work.
  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been working for a woman most of my life (my wife)...[:o)]
  • rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    A lot fewer words, but the same meaning around here when we say....."Yuh Ride For The Brand."

    In the immortal words of Louis L'amour
  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by victorj19
    Is it the same if you work for a woman?


    Maybe three weeks out of the month![;)]
    There is no such thing as Liberal Men, only Liberal Women with Penises.'
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