A steady stream of employees was pouring through the gate--employees of the higher sort, at this hour, clerks and stenographers and such.
It was like a wonderful poem to him, and he took it all in guilelessly--even to the conspicuous signs demanding immaculate cleanliness of the employees. Jurgis was vexed when the cynical Jokubas translated these signs with sarcastic comments, offering to take them to the secret rooms where the spoiled meats went to be doctored.
'I fear,' he said, 'that I cannot discuss my affairs with Mr Blaythwayt's
employees. I must see him personally.'
And Harris Collins, a sliver of a less than a light-weight man, who lived in mortal fear that at table the mother of his children would crown him with a plate of hot soup, went into the cage, before the critical audience of his
employees and professional visitors, armed only with a broom-handle.
Quite often, in Germany, shopkeepers who could not furnish me the article I wanted have sent one of their
employees with me to show me a place where it could be had.
Tyler, Sr., had picked him out of thousands of
employees and made him; or rather Tyler had given him the opportunity, and then Billings had made himself.
The captains of war, at your command, have shot down like dogs your
employees in a score of bloody strikes.
He had insisted, however, upon efficiency in the work, and had, therefore, paid off certain drunken and idle
employees who were members of the all-powerful society.
He had been in authority over thirty-five hundred postal
employees, and was the developer of a system that covered every inhabited portion of the country.
Here live those who minister to the wants of the glad city - jhampanis who pull the pretty ladies' 'rickshaws by night and gamble till the dawn; grocers, oil-sellers, curio-vendors, firewood-dealers, priests, pickpockets, and native
employees of the Government.
Presidents of great railway systems bought whole editions of it to give to their
employees. The Manufacturers' Association alone distributed fifty thousand copies of it.
Ouchi's book Theory Z: How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge (Addison-Wesley, 1981) begins, "The secret to successful manufacturing is trust." His consultant role was to convince the chief and all of his executives that
employee trust had real bottom-line value.