Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

By: Alan Dundes, Carl Pagter

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Paperback | 1 December 1992

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Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection.

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery of government or the office where one works. The wonderfully expressive materials in this book--chain letters, memoranda, notices, and cartoons--touch upon every major controversy of urban America: racism, sex, politics, automation, alienation, welfare, the women's movement, military mentality, and office bureaucracy. The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them.

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Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Traditional Letters	p. 3
Think Prayer	p. 5
The Fertilizer Club	p. 6
The Spouse Exchange	p. 7
A Letter for Medgar Evers	p. 9
The President's Statue and the Promised Land	p. 10
Dear Congressman, How Do You Stand on Whiskey?	p. 12
A Letter from an Irish Relative	p. 13
Should I Tell My Bride-to-Be?	p. 15
To My Dear Loving Wife	p. 16
Fill of Corn	p. 21
A Strange Blend of Coffee	p. 23
The Bill Paper's Complaint	p. 24
The Debtor's Letter	p. 26
The Temperance Recuiter	p. 31
Thank You from the Old Folks Home	p. 32
Pardon This Jerky Writing	p. 37
Grammer as Wrote	p. 39
The College Girl's Letter Home	p. 40
Letter to a Buddy in the Service	p. 41
The Twelve Days of Christmas	p. 43
Definitions and Principles	p. 49
Modern Definitions	p. 50
A Glossary of Naval Terms	p. 51
Office Definitions	p. 52
Engineers' Dictionary	p. 53
Technical Writing Kit	p. 56
Table of Helpful Excuses	p. 59
Political "Isms"	p. 59
What the Girls of All Nations Say on the Morning after the Night Before	p. 60
Types of Men One Meets in a Washroom	p. 61
Types of Girls in the Powder Room	p. 66
Murphy's Laws	p. 69
Murphy's Laws for Construction Engineers	p. 72
Novel Notices and Memorable Memos	p. 76
I'm Not Allowed to Run the Train	p. 77
Positions to Be Eliminated	p. 77
Guide to Employee Performance Appraisal	p. 79
A Parable of Personnel Policy	p. 81
Those Good Old Days	p. 84
Instructions on Death of Employees	p. 85
New Sick-Leave Police	p. 87
The Order	p. 88
The Rush-Job Calendar	p. 90
The Equal-Opportunity Christmas Memo	p. 92
The Office Party	p. 94
The Surprise Party	p. 97
The Expense Account	p. 99
The Boss	p. 100
A New Tax	p. 101
Sell Drinks at Home	p. 102
Coho Salmon Experiments in Lake Michigan	p. 103
In Case of Nuclear Bomb Attack	p. 104
Indoctrination for Soldiers Returning Home	p. 106
Notes on Operation of Rotary-Type Lawn Mowers	p. 112
Applications and Tests	p. 115
Are You Qualified for a Date with a Paratrooper?	p. 115
Instrument of Surrender	p. 118
Virtue Test	p. 119
Government Poverty Application	p. 125
Application for Membership in the N.A.A.C.P.	p. 127
Applicazionne to Joina de Mafia	p. 129
Can You Follow Directions?	p. 133
Now Your Town Can Have a Professional Riot	p. 136
University of California Curriculum	p. 138
My Child Was Absent from School Because...	p. 140
From Applications for Welfare	p. 141
Folk Cartoons and Drawings	p. 144
You'll Always Get Your Reward	p. 145
The Finger	p. 154
Am I People?	p. 157
The Job Is Never Finished Till the Paper Work Is Done	p. 160
The Organization Chart	p. 163
Project Swing	p. 167
It's a Tough Life	p. 171
Pistol for Sale	p. 174
Heavy Artillery	p. 177
The Italian (Polish) Air-Raid Shelter	p. 179
A Visit to the Butcher Shop	p. 180
The Roadrunner	p. 182
Charlie Brown's Allergy	p. 185
A Folk Folding Rorschach	p. 189
Inscribed on the Wailing Wall	p. 192
The Output Processer	p. 193
The Extended Double Entendre	p. 196
Confucius Say	p. 196
Did You Hear about the Guy Who...?	p. 197
When the Japs Took Sal Hepatica	p. 198
Advice to a Stockholder	p. 199
Insurance Companies	p. 200
Popular Brands of Bottled Beer	p. 201
The Cigarette Story	p. 202
The Seventh Race	p. 203
The Game Called Bridge	p. 205
The Sex Life of an Electron	p. 206
The Law as it Should Be	p. 207
A Political Speech by a Woman to a Woman's Club	p. 209
The Birthday Gift	p. 210
Twin Brothers	p. 211
The Wayside Chapel	p. 212
George Takes Up Golf	p. 214
Proxy Papas	p. 217
Conclusions	p. 220
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