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News for Business GIRLS
N indignant employer has written protesting against girls who, having learned the essentials of a business, leave and set up on their own, taking some of their former customers with them.
He considers it a form of theft which should be met with legal redress. What do business girls think about it?
There are two particular branches of commerce which suffer from this form of enterprise-the hairdressing and beauty culture trades.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,
1936.
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three years is still on the up grade. Once upon a time it was looked upon an being infra dig for a European woman to hang over a kitchen stove in this Colony. Those days, happily, are passing. We are eating better than for many years; the pastry-and- strong-tea lunch of most business girls has quite disappeared.
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There is still room, however, for same enterprising cookery experts to for one-ring meals business girls to prepare for them- nelves in the evenings when they are living on their own in "dies."
Neither profession has, at the moment, any definite examinations or
suggest Business is therefore gained certificates at which employees can aim. and held simply and cotely on merit and success with individual clients.
There is no Sunday-school code in commerce, and if employees are quick and bright and there are no set qualifications for them to wall for they will naturally branch out un their own. The fault would therefore appear to lie with the profesion It- self and with the employers.
Such employers should descend from their moral perch, and they And they have clever, popular assist unts with a long list of customer bes
Name Chart
CHARLOTTE
hind them-make it worth to giris Symbol:
while to stay In the present business,
There are a variety of staff profit- daring schemes tu existence, both in England and in America. They have been found to be a great success,
A small fee-in proportion to the nize of the Arm-to an expert in such schemes will save employers in these particular professions much anxiety, and will keep the brilliant ones with- in the fold,
Office Conditions
A dista).
S name algnines versatility and artistle gifts,
Sunday la the day of Fortune. The luckiest hours are sunrise and noon. the lucky day of the month is the ninth
Prim
Your stone is the ruby, rose is your most harmonic shade, and also tone of misty blue. The primrose is your special flower, and your lucky number is une.
THAT in really surprising ta half the morning looking at
picture. Why do so many girls put A
Few Suggestions.
The cooking of a good simple omelette the making of a really in- sand to teresting fresh vegetable follow it, and the relative food value of some quickly prepared dishes are points that should be within the reach of every businesa girl.
Only If you actually know how a£]>* pellsing cold Ash salads and soups with grated cheese can be will you attempt these simple meals, and they are infinitely preferable to a hustly fried meat dish if you have been in a sedentary job all day. It is the
tle embellishments - thit dishes of this sort.
count in
Very young people loathe to worry hot food. That may be excellent in some ways, but when you do rai you should know what you are eating and why. Otherwise you will not be able Be to gel through the Strrin of winter without detinite loss of stamina-und with it your good com- plexion und bright, healthy ap- pearance.
TT is a dieult circle to breat. Rents are no high that em-
up with conditions In, offers which their sisters in other countries would not dream of tolerating for a week?
Visit a modern office at Home or in ployers do not want to spend extra America and look at the rest rooms, uney on a proper rest ruom, for the surgical rooms, dental rooms, murie girls, and the girls are to anxious to rooms, and excellent canteens pro- Keep on earning that they will put vided for the employees, and then go up with incredibly bad conditions. exploring in a dozen small Hongkong offices. What do you find in th latter?
Il-ventilated, overcrowded rooms, desks the wrong height for girls to work ut, and one solitary washing room bearing cold water and a hud plece of soup in u box-llite room with trimy window overlooking a filthy back yard.
If a clerk is taken ill she has to
But it is the employers who suffer, most in the end. Bul conditions mean bad health and bad work and
Timekeeping
RE you a good tune-keeper? A According to a large group of employers, girls are far worse in keyping to office hours than are men. This is not particularly surprising which
normal Consider the feminine psychology of relying on senso ut emotions rather than on a duty to get a job done.
you
There is another side to this time-
an atmosphere of continual grun keeping business. If you are being
very careful to keep to oilice hours bling.
A small meeting * Une senior women employees and the boss to consider suggestions for a cheap way of equipping a rest room would help considerably, as few men how extremely economically things can be done by women.
haye first aid rendered to her in the Home Cookery
general offer.
And then some employer complain
realise these
THE tremendous interest in
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Bern, pilot, Capt. Umberto leaped with a parachuite.
Fewer firms are paying for over- time nowadays is A recognised routine, but at the same time there is very little sherlening of office hours. There are literally dozens of small offices where giris hre expected to work anything from fifteen to forty-plane caused it to spin-Reiter. five minutes per day beyond their recognised hours of duty.
Several years ago we bad put be-
#s
who
Tee forming on the wing of the
fore us the ideal of a five-day week WAGES WRONGLY
for all. That dream has only materialised in a few offices, and In some business frms in America. It has worked extremely well, and in each instance output has actually been increased over a year's work.
It would seem, therefore, that the question of time at work does play an extraordinarily Important part in the average person's output.
Most girls would far prefer to work extremely lnrd for seven-hours than wurk slowly and lackadaisically for eight.
There must be regulations and rules in a large oflce, but if the em- players who complain of ten minutes lost here and there would instead up- proach
from the girls
fl mort: emotional angle of "This is your work can to-day; when it's finished you
results knock of," then I think the would be happier all round.
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.Washington, Nov. 12 Mr. John L. Lewis, one of the. Tenders of the Labour League America, has tatly rejected the cost of Being formula by which the wages in the steel industry are regulated.
Following a conference with steel workers he promised to.
States Steel
United
byport a resolution adoption employers | requesting a review of the employee lion plan in the light of federal legislation."
Mr. Lewis branded the proposed 10 per cent. wage Increase as "just another yellow Jug contract." United Press.
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION
Washington, Nov. 12.
A federal Maritime Commission has instituted an investigation of the strike situation in Atlantic and Gulf ports and will deal with minimum wages, manning scales and working conditions generally-United Press.
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