We can use the questions as sort of a guide.
In the ‘sixties when we still had the old guard, the old guys that just didn’t follow the rules. Buck Evan didn’t follow the rules. And nobody was going to tell him to follow the rules, either. Budgetary-wise I think he did, but when it came to the rest of the stuff, he laughed at the idea of shiny shoes and he’d take his pen and he wouldn’t retract it before he stuck it in his pocket. And he couldn’t always find it. He’d just be talking and he’d be rolling it up and down like that. By the end of the week –he usually wore his shirts all week – it’d just look like a big flower there. But that’s no problem with Buck. He always carried gloves in his back pocket. His shoes were never polished, his shirt was hanging out. He always walked around scratching his head. “Well, guess I better go upstairs and count my money.” He was always counting his money to see if he had enough money for the end of the summer. They didn’t really work on a budget system, I don’t think, because if they started running out of money, they just started laying people off. We knew we had a job until sometimes in the middle of August, but we weren’t guaranteed jobs after that. But if the middle of August came and he still had some money, he’d keep a few people around. If not, you’d all get laid off. It was a funny way of doing things. And he always made sure that you got terminated before your 90 days, because after 90 days, they had to pay you holiday pay (7).
