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1. Thou shalt be pipe-fitter, electrician, welder, office boy, carpenter
or what-have-you, for the sake of thy treatment plant.
2. Thou shalt not take in vain the name of thy Director of Public Utilities
nor thy Municipality.
3. Six days shalt thou labor with thy plant, and on the seventh day
thou shalt labor also, for the Sunday was made for poor fools like thee.
4. Thou shalt keep thy plant running on Election Day, Fourth of July,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. For the welfare
of thy Municipality, thou shalt have no holidays whatsoever.
5. Thou shalt operate thy plant without residues, either those that
pollute with stenches the air above, or those that may be poured into
rivers, or those that accumulate as ungodly wastes upon the face of
the earth. Thou shalt do this without asking others how it is done.
6. Thou shalt endeavor by hydraulics, politics, electronics, soft-soap,
bulldozing, profanity, and chemistry to keep thy efficiencies high,
yea, 100 percent is acceptable.
7. Thou shalt not covet new equipment, or assistant, or helpers, for
all these things are abomination in the sights of the Municipality.
8. Thou halt never, no never, assign anyone, of thy day-laborers to
any menial task which he might consider beneath his dignity, or in any
manner discriminatory.
9. Thou shalt maintain continuously, and at all times, a BOD reduction
of 99.44 percent, for the Water Pollution Control Authority, knows best.
10. Thou shalt not covet great rewards. Thou shalt accept, gratefully
and without question, the pittance meted out to thee. May thy troubles
be many, thy financial and spiritual rewards small, and may thy days
be long with thy antique, over-loaded treatment plant.
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