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 a joke, but don't jest about them in public or where eavesdroppers may hear your careless words and carry them further, to do harm to your employer and eventually to yourself. Your employer is straining every nerve to make his business succeed. Perhaps he is not working in just the right way, but it is not your place to shout this fact from the house-tops. Perhaps in time he may see the error of his methods and work out his business salvation on different lines. In the meantime if the you mean to accept a salary at his hands, be loyal to his interests, and do not criticize him to his friends or his rivals.

When you feel inclined to be disloyal, stop and figure on what you owe your employer.

Start your business career by honestly appreciating the privilege of being paid a salary during your training. The modern boy or girl knows little enough about being trained for work. In the old days of apprentices for trades, boys and girls worked from two to seven years for nothing or for board and lodging, in order to be prepared properly for wage-earning. To-day many girls with absolutely no equipment seem to think that employers ought to be glad to secure their inexperienced services.

Just get that idea out of your head. Bear in mind that the debt is all on your side. Be sincerely grateful to the man who gives you a