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24 Agosto 1895.
Direttore delle Officine.
La di lei posizione sociale e la di lei educazione dovrebbero farla conscio dei doveri che le incombono, senza che a noi venga l’incresciosa necessità di richiamarli alla di lei memoria. Ma poiché, né riguardose osservazioni personali, né osservazioni scritte valgono a qualche cosa, è con vivo dispiacere che le dichiariamo trovarci costretti a ben altri provvedimenti, e che questo è l’ultimo richiamo fatto in via confidenziale.
Sorpassando sul fatto che vincoli di parentela diretta col Gerente dovrebbero essere per Lei una ragione impellente per mostrarsi primo fra tutti per zelo ed esattezza, le facciamo osservare ch’Ella è ne più, né meno di altro fra gli impiegati della Ditta, e quindi essere obbligo assoluto il suo d’osservare l’orario!
Se per speciali riguardi abbiamo creduto sorpassare sulla necessità che il
A meglio chiarire ogni cosa, stabiliamo che il
Almeno due volte al mese il
Noi speriamo che in avvenire non avremo a fare osservazioni, e speriamo altresì ch’Ella, Sigr. Ingegnere, comprenderà la difficile posizione fatta al Gerente ne’ di lei riguardi e farà in modo che nemmeno da terzi pervengano osservazioni. In caso diverso dovremo invitarla a dare le proprie dimissioni, non intendendo più coprire il Direttore colla nostra responsabilità. Dmi. G Ricordi e C.
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CLET002050
24 August 1895
Sig. Ing. Tito Ricordi
Director of the Workshops. City
Your social standing and your education should make you sufficiently aware of your responsibilities without there being the disagreeable necessity of our having to remind you of them. But since our courteous observations, both spoken privately and written, have had no effect, we find ourselves most regretfully obliged to take decidedly different measures, and notify you that this is the final confidential admonition you will receive.
Setting aside the fact that your direct family connection to the General Manager should be a compelling reason to demonstrate yourself to be more diligent and attentive than anyone else, we must observe that you are no more privileged than the other company employees and are therefore absolutely required to observe your workday schedule!
If, given your position, we found it reasonable that the Director need not be present in the Workshops during all workday hours, the fact remains that you must nonetheless always be present during the established hours, and remain there at all times unless you are called away elsewhere for business.
By way of further clarification, we have determined that the Director should be present in the Workshops from 8:30 to 11:30 in the morning, and resume work after midday until 6:15 – not including, of course, those extra hours that might be necessary for special reasons involving urgent projects or administrative matters. This schedule will be made known to all those who have to deal directly with the Director, so that they are certain they will always be able to find him during those hours.
At least two times each month the Director should be physically present, without advance warning, at the entrance when the Workshops employees arrive in the morning, and he will confirm his presence and their timeliness in a note to the General Manager. This is understood as a general principle – without entering into particulars regarding the numerous manifestations of disorder and the deplorable and damaging delays in the consignment of jobs.
We hope that in the future there will be no further need to make such observations, and that you, Sig. Ingegnere, will comprehend the General Manager’s difficult position in your regard, and that you will see to it that no one, either directly or indirectly, has any reason to complain. Should it be otherwise, we will be forced to ask for your resignation, no longer intending to take personal responsibility for the Director. Yours most sincerely, G. Ricordi e C.
Milano
Letter name DOC01827.185
Volume Signature DOC01827
Year 1888-1901
Volume 01
Pag 376-377
No. pag 2