By RAHN ADAMS
Back when Timberley and I worked together in the newspaper business, one of our all-time favorite bosses was an affable man who still managed to get under our skins now and then.
In paying us every two weeks, our boss also printed memos on our paystubs, whether it was to wish an employee happy birthday, to encourage us to have fun at some local event that weekend, or, my favorite, to remind us, “The eagle flies today!”
That phrase has stuck with me for a quarter century even though I’m now receiving pension checks at the end of each month. The eagle still flies, just not quite as high or as far.
But even our old boss would have to admit that some of his tongue-in-cheek paycheck notations could be just a bit irksome to hard-working employees, especially after a long week. The best one in that category always showed up on the payday before Labor Day, a holiday that our newspaper did not observe, at least as far as we laborers were concerned.
“Celebrate Labor Day!” the memo exclaimed, before ending with the zinger, “Work hard.”
Yeah, we chuckled about it—the first year that our payday fell on the Friday before Labor Day. It wasn’t quite so amusing the second and third years.
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