A watched job never spoils
Long black banner poster with the slogan 'a Watched Job Never Spoils' in white, the letters W, J, N and S picked out in yellow, between two yellow ordnance bomb-and-flame badges. The technique is faint here: a reworked proverb used as a slogan, with the highlighted initials as a possible acronym that the sheet does not explain.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-296 (NAID 513743).
Text on the object
a Watched Job Never Spoils [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : [year illegible]--O--[number illegible]] [imprint: ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY [rest illegible]]
