Work Rules from a 1900s Casket Factory
While doing research for an article on the National Museum of Funeral History (I kid you not!), I found the following rules, word for word, on a sign in the Museum’s reconstruction of a 1900s Casket Factory:
Work Rules
IF YOU WANT TO DO GOOD WORK AND BE A SUCCESS IN LIFE…
1. Be Clean and Orderly.
2. Take Good Care of Property, Equipment and Materials.
3. Follow Instructions Carefully and Continually.
4. Work Well from Whistle to Whistle.
5. Work Well Every Day and Tell you Foremen when You Cannot.
6. Work Well with Others.DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS THESE SIX LAWS WHO DOES NOT GET ALONG WELL IN LIFE?——–
Remembering to follow rule number 6 would help a lot of us. And “Work Well” is a nice, Horatio-Algerish motto to live by.
If you want to see some of the fascinating exhibits in the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, TX, including the actual Popemobile used on the Pope’s U.S. visit in 1983, Civil War embalming, artistic and fantasty caskets from Europe, and much more, go here.
