1st.—Business hours will include the time between breakfast and six
o’clock, P. M., except when special duty may require it otherwise.
2d.—During business hours, all hands must be employed at some regular
store duty.
3d.—As waiting on customers is a duty which requires most knowledge
and experience, the first assistant must always serve when there is
one customer; the other assistants may help if need be.
4th.—The first assistant must always take that part of the duty which
requires most knowledge and skill. This order of duty must never be
deviated from, if circumstances will admit of it.
5th.—All other duty must give way to that of waiting on customers.
6th.—Every person entering the store, whether pauper or president,
infant or adult, white or colored, must be treated with courtesy and
kindness.
7th.—Boisterous mirth and a sullen temper are to be equally avoided,
as productive of neither business nor business character. The
acquisition of a uniformly cheerful temperament is an attainment
worth far beyond the price it usually costs.
8th.—There are to be no masters and no servants. Each one is to feel
conscious of the fact that the performance of the duties assigned
to him is just as necessary and as important as what pertains to
any other hand in the store. All useful employment is honorable;
indolence is a disgrace.
9th.—An afternoon of every week will be devoted to the cleaning of
the store, in which all must share as occasion offers.
10th.—As neatness, order and cleanliness are necessary, and not mere
accomplishments, in an undertaking establishment, all are required to
practice them constantly.
11th.—Assistants should be rather select in the choice of their
acquaintances; while the occasional visit of a well behaved friend
will be countenanced, lounging in the store will not be tolerated.
12th.—Each assistant shall have, if business permits, one afternoon
and evening every week, and every other Sunday; the afternoon will
comprise the time between twelve o’clock at noon and six o’clock P.
M.; the evening, between six o’clock P. M. and the closing of the
store. These privileges must not be interfered with unnecessarily.
13th.—No assistant residing in the house will be allowed to be absent
at night after the closing of the store, without special permission.
14th.—A vacation of two weeks every year will be allowed each
assistant.
15th.—It is not the wish of the proprietor that any of his employes
should extol the goods beyond their merits to advance his pecuniary
interests, or to say or do aught in the performance of his duties
that he would not be willing that others should say or do to him
under the same circumstances.
A cheerful compliance with the foregoing rules is confidently
expected, and the repeated infraction of a regulation of the store
will be cause for dismissal.
In certain establishments, where a driver is kept for the purpose of
taking care of horses and driving the hearse or other vehicles, this
employe shall be under the immediate supervision of the proprietor.