There’s A Complainer In Every Office
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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According to this, office workers in Ohio averaged about $40 per week in 1926:
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/average-annual-wage-salary-payments-ohio-1916-1932-4135?start_page=176Report
My grandfather told the story of the day he got a raise to 60 cents an hour (24 bucks a week).
“I was getting paid every minute I was there. I put my pencil down and took a deep breath and I was getting paid. I got up to go to the water cooler and I was getting paid. I was getting paid every minute.”
This, of course, segued into how people today don’t appreciate things.Report