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<blockquote data-quote="alabama" data-source="post: 233764" data-attributes="member: 2218"><p>I finely got to watch the series and had the following observations, which showed the change in the work ethic from then until today. It also showed some of the troubles we have today with upper management in some large companies and how they treat their employees. </p><p></p><p>At the start of the series, we had four women to take cart of one ranch house. It was their job to keep the home place in shape and contribute to the welfare of their future. Instead, the women ended up sleeping and loafing. They did not tend the garden and keep the house clean. They made pets of the farm animals and expected help from the cowboys to get their chores done. The women were week and unwilling to work. </p><p>The Owner was not willing to use a heavy hand to force the women to work nor did he engage in ranch work when he could. </p><p></p><p>When the cowboy's cook was fired and the ranch was short on cowhands, the women of the ranch should have prepared the meals for both the family and the hands. </p><p></p><p>The cowboys did better but were still unwilling to give the daylight to dark work that would have been needed for the ranch to succeed. </p><p></p><p>What took the cake was the way that the owner tried to take advantage of his hands on payday. In today's world, an owner may well be able to treat the employees of a large corporation in this manner and survive but even on a ranch today, word would get around and that rancher would never be able to hire the hands he needs. Mr. Cook owed everything to those hands and could have collected them as a group and discussed what he needed to maintain the ranch for the next year while explaining that if he could not reach some sort of a deal the ranch would fold. He may still have lost some hands and had to pay them off true to his original word but I think some would have stayed and felt more like a part of the ranch. But by this time it may have been too late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alabama, post: 233764, member: 2218"] I finely got to watch the series and had the following observations, which showed the change in the work ethic from then until today. It also showed some of the troubles we have today with upper management in some large companies and how they treat their employees. At the start of the series, we had four women to take cart of one ranch house. It was their job to keep the home place in shape and contribute to the welfare of their future. Instead, the women ended up sleeping and loafing. They did not tend the garden and keep the house clean. They made pets of the farm animals and expected help from the cowboys to get their chores done. The women were week and unwilling to work. The Owner was not willing to use a heavy hand to force the women to work nor did he engage in ranch work when he could. When the cowboy’s cook was fired and the ranch was short on cowhands, the women of the ranch should have prepared the meals for both the family and the hands. The cowboys did better but were still unwilling to give the daylight to dark work that would have been needed for the ranch to succeed. What took the cake was the way that the owner tried to take advantage of his hands on payday. In today’s world, an owner may well be able to treat the employees of a large corporation in this manner and survive but even on a ranch today, word would get around and that rancher would never be able to hire the hands he needs. Mr. Cook owed everything to those hands and could have collected them as a group and discussed what he needed to maintain the ranch for the next year while explaining that if he could not reach some sort of a deal the ranch would fold. He may still have lost some hands and had to pay them off true to his original word but I think some would have stayed and felt more like a part of the ranch. But by this time it may have been too late. [/QUOTE]
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