On work ethics, and there's NO jobs that are, too, small or unimportant…translated…
I'd been a paid subscriber of the United Daily News for more than two decades, that honorable delivery person, when from a young girl, to an, aging, woman, from getting married to having her own daughter, and her daughter, having a son, she still, kept up with the newspaper delivery job. My respect for her is genuine, she became more like a friend to me, for over twenty years, we'd met up every single, day, even as the pandemic began.
She'd told me before, that delivering the papers is nothing simple, no matter the weather, she'd had to get up early in the morn, tying the papers up by the bundles, sorting them, then, placing the papers into the designated subscribers' mailboxes. And she only has four days off for around the Chinese New Year's, and, a lot of people can't stand this work that required them to wake up bright and early, with almost NO days off in the year, within a few days of signing on, then they'd all, escaped.
Take my house for instant, at eight sharp, the paper is here, I'd returned for my morning run, began sweeping off the fallen leaves in my yard, she'd come. Sometimes when it'd rained, worrying that the papers might get wet, she'd wrapped them up with a plastic bag, then, tossed the papers in; because she is extremely skilled in throwing the papers in, they'd always landed right, on my front steps. Sometimes, I'd, not seen the papers, and called her to inquire, and she'd told me to "look under your car, or over the cloth racks", and certainly, I'd found, although, there were, so many subscribers, she's, always correct in answering the people's, inquiries, she has excellent, memory.
come rain or shine...photo from online
When her daughter married, she'd especially called all the subscribers, letting us know, that the paper would come a little bit late on the day. I'd told her to not bring it by, if she's too busy, that she could deliver it to me the following day, but she'd still, delivered the paper to me on her daughter's, wedding day. There were a couple of times she'd been injured in the car wrecks, and tried finding someone else to deliver the papers on her behalf, and one time, it was the owner of the papers who'd come to assist in the deliveries, and he'd told me, "I can't not come, the deliverywoman is more nervous than I am!"
And, where can we find this sort of a newspaper delivery person with this strong a work ethics these days?
And so, for this woman, this is, no longer, a job, but she'd made it into a sort of a calling. This is a really simple and small work, and yet, this woman takes her work so seriously, and that is, commendable, and if all the employees can have HALF of this woman's work ethics, then I imagine, that the enterprises, the corporations, will all be, flourishing.
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