Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
In The Office.
Before you can become a general manager, or even a partner in the firm, it is considered the proper thing to work your way through the office. Then in later years, should you become bankrupt, you will know enough to be able to lecture on: “How to Succeed in Business,” and make pots of money.
All sorts of people work in an office, and they are so graded that everybody has someone else to blame when anything goes wrong – except the office boy; but he can always get his own back by whistling.
Office work looks very complicated, and it is. To do it properly a lot of desks and letter-baskets are necessary. Someone – usually the office boy – starts by rushing around with a lot of papers and slamming them in the various baskets.
Then Mr. Snooks takes a letter out of his