Confidentially - I'm not the most important guy around here ... but my work counts, too!
Industrial-morale poster: a close-up of a working man in a cloth cap with a name badge, one hand cupped beside his mouth as if confiding, under the quoted line 'Confidentially - I'm not the most important guy around here ... but my work counts, too!' The speaker is an ordinary worker talking in the first person (plain-folks), inviting each worker to see his own job as part of the war effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- "Victory-Builders" Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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)
"Victory-Builders" Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-592 (NAID 514072).
Text on the object
"Confidentially— I'M NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT GUY AROUND HERE .... But My Work Counts, Too!" [cap badge:] 380-46 W.G. WILSON 380-46 [signature:] Packer [imprint:] PRINTED IN U.S.A. [imprint:] [union label] 8-173 [imprint:] Copyright "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
