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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 5 (September 24, 1926)

The Manager's Handicap

The Manager's Handicap.

The Manager sits on the office stool
And yearns and yearns and yearns
For a chance to buy a modern tool
That earns and earns and earns.
He's sick of fussing with old-time stuff
And slow production has called his bluff.
He knows there are profits he's sure to muff
When the trend of business turns.
While the orders come at a generous price
He drives and drives and drives,
So the books will show just a little slice
He plans and schemes and strives.
He's got to earn while the price is right
When everyone's pushed with the work in sight,
But when competition brings on a fight
He'll be lucky if he survives.
His boys will do what he wants them to do
And they work and work and work,
But they're penalised by his old machines
For the damn things only shirk.
So do what he will, production's low,
He hasn't a chance till his old tools go
To that far-off land of lost limbo
Where only phantoms lurk.