Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down in their homes and the iron turned off. He built baseball diamonds, organized a band to play for dancing at lunchtime. To promote a company spirit, Swirbul set up a bonus system based not on individual performance, but on the plant's total output. Grumman employees-from janitor to junior executives-collected bonuses that ranged as high as 30% of their annual salaries...
...break down because of the stress of work, psychiatrists have found that the great majority of mental difficulties have their source outside work, are usually only aggravated or brought to the breaking point by a tense on-the-job situation. That rule applies to the $4,000-a-year janitor as well as the $25,000 executive. Though the janitor may be under less pressure at work, he may also be trying to buy a $10,000 home, send five kids through school, deal with a nagging wife...
After they checked in at the lodge and had lunch, the three friends went out for a hike. Janitor Emil Boehn was carrying wood into the lodge as they left. "It's a beautiful afternoon for a hike," said one of the women. "Yes, ma'am," replied Boehn. The women walked to a slippery, narrow canyon trail, wound their way past ravines with 20-ft. drops, came to the dead end of a canyon whose walls rise 80 ft. on three sides, framing a frozen waterfall. They were about a mile from the lodge...
...acquired a volubility and an oratorical flourish that have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family's fortunes hit rock bottom, finally worked his way through school as a part-time janitor and drugstore clerk), and a witness of the dust storms that scourged South Dakota in the 1930s, Humphrey became an ardent advocate of Franklin Roosevelt. Phi Beta Kappa Humphrey wrote his master's thesis at Louisiana State University on The Philosophy of the New Deal...