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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... hired.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed, and a few full-time secretaries hired.

2.
... hired an A.A. member solely because of ...   12&12 p.158, Tradition Six
Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his knowledge of alcoholism.

3.
... hired an alcoholic, he'd receive only what ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
If we hired an alcoholic, he'd receive only what we'd have to pay a nonalcoholic for the same job.


4.
... hired and fired hundreds of men.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
He has hired and fired hundreds of men.

5.
... hired out to corporations as personnel men ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.

6.
... hired out to such enterprises, he was ...   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
In former days, the moment an A.A. hired out to such enterprises, he was immediately tempted to use the name Alcoholics Anonymous for publicity or money-raising purposes.

7.
... hired them, the ultraconservative and fearful ones ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
But the minute we hired them, the ultraconservative and fearful ones shrilled, "Professionalism!"

8.
... hired to do A.A.'s Twelfth Step work.   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
Yet not a single one of them had been hired to do A.A.'s Twelfth Step work.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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