6. Be at the place at the time appointed, do faithfully your work in a
good spirit, not grumblingly, and then your employer will meet you in
a like spirit, and your life will be one of happiness.
7. Consider that for the time being you are the property of your
employer, and faithfully obey his instructions and requests.
8. It is better--more honest--to give him an hour or two of labor than
to cheat him by idling or work poorly performed.
9. Avoid intoxicants, especially while you are at work, for as your
time belongs to your employer, you should strive to render faithful,
intelligent service, which can not be done under the influence of
liquor. Besides, you endanger your own life and the safety of the
property you are paid to protect.
10. Be frank, and never under any circumstances deceive your employer.
If you have done wrong, or made a mistake, own it like a man. He will
respect you more for it.
11. Treat your employer's property as you would your own; and if you
are a careless man, treat it better.
12. Be polite and gentle to your fellow workmen and your employer, as
coarse jests and ill temper are out of place even on the rock pile,
as well as in the parlor. Remember the street scavenger can be a
Chesterfield as well as the gentleman of fashion who graces the richest
drawing room.
"True politeness is to do and say
The noblest things in the kindest way."