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The aim of this article is to do justice to a formation of bad workers reputation in connection with phenomena such as absenteeism and stuff turnover in Ostrava - Karvina district in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. The article intends on formation of such reputation in 'Havirska pravda' magazine - company magazine of ZS ROH of 'Dul Ceskoslovenske armada' (the Czechoslovak Army Mine), 'Karvina II - Doly'. The magazine presented negative examples on one hand and on the other hand it presented good ones as well. The common features can be found in the way of compiling the portraits by various authors as well as in their expression using. Those features became characteristic for two opposite types of miners - good ones and bad ones.