Word: griper
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WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a man who once fired his secretary for not making a tuna fish sandwich on time? A man whose Williams College classmates voted him "Class Griper" and "Shovels It Fastest" in his college yearbook? A man who tried to explain away his $100,000 in illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign as an oversight? A man whose employees privately call him the "Fuhrer...
...Maybe the griper is the reason that the waiter/clerk/driver hates his job. What ever happened to the tradition of cultivating good service by a generous tip rather than poisoning it with...
...when a disgruntled worker was told to hurry, he snapped back: "Why should I knock myself out for Republic? They make $75 out of every billet of steel and I get nothing." His foreman, Chris Cutropia, who was both forewarned and forearmed, took the worker aside, and convinced the griper that the company would be lucky to make 75? a billet. Reporting the incident to his superiors, Foreman Cutropia added: "Three months ago I wouldn't have been able to say anything...
...book's best features is Smith's own father, an oldtime archetypical rural griper who felt friendly to socialism the minute he saw a picture of the late John D. Rockefeller on a golf course; who reads each issue of TIME "from cover to cover, talking and cussing a blue streak -not really at TIME, but at the human beings whose antics are reported in its pages...
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