Life, 1925-01-08 · page 34 of 37
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This is a humorous editorial piece critiquing bank management practices. The author ironically suggests that banks should allow tellers to steal small amounts of money periodically—supposedly to improve employee morale and make them happier handling cash all day. The satire works by exaggerating the absurdity: if tellers could pocket $100 weekly without consequence, they'd be less resentful and more cooperative with customers. The author then extends the joke, proposing banks could offset this by cutting other "unnecessary" expenses—eliminating decorative marble floors, fancy furnishings, and security guards (the "stuffed uniform" guard with whiskers). The underlying critique targets bank stinginess and the dehumanizing treatment of employees who handle money without sharing in profits. By proposing increasingly ridiculous cost-cutting measures, the author satirizes corporate penny-pinching while highlighting worker dissatisfaction—a relevant concern during this economic era.
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Still, a neat sign like “Tellers lifting more than $100 a week from the till will have the surplus stopped out of would pay for iiself, any number of way knows money their wage And there a in which the bani: could cut down expenses in order to come out even at the end of the month. For instance, it could make the man- ers print their own desk name-plates. It could circulars. It could use less gilt paint, plate glass and mahogany in the interior and modify the acreage of marble floor. Nobody would mind the innovation, and it would stop sending emba rassment to parents whose accompanying children always ask in a loud voice if they are in a church, Best of all, the bank could dispense with the services of that stuffed uni- form that is always gum-shoeing about. You know whem I mean. He always grows his whiskers after one of the ex-crowned heads of Europe and then forgets he is only an imita He looks over your shoulder when you are making out a check. 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