He never quite finishes anything he undertakes; he can not be depended upon to do anything quite right; his work always needs looking over by some one else.
Hundreds of clerks and book-keepers are getting small salaries in poor positions today because they have never learned to do things absolutely right.
A prominent business man says that the carelessness, inaccuracy, and blundering of employees cost Chicago one million dollars a day.

The manager of a large house in that city, says that he has to station pickets here and there throughout the establishment in order to neutralize the evils of inaccuracy and the blundering habit.

One of John Wanamaker's partners says that unnecessary blunders and mistakes cost that firm twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

The dead letter department of the Post Office in Washington received in one year seven million pieces of undelivered mail.

Of these more than eighty thousand bore no address whatever.