March 14, 2017

Day 97 | 750 Words Challenge | Morning Pages Challenge | 365 Day Challenge

Employment is like arranged marriage. Each party has to respect the opposite site and work out from there. There is no love at the first sight. That can come much later. Each must understands his or her role and carry on with the day to day living and operations. Each party must be opened. They cannot afford to hide anything that might disrupt the relationship and the daily routines. They can be close during the private hours and learn how to love and respect each other.

Most of the time we are not able to get the job that we love to do. Most of the time we are not able to get the job that exactly utilize our skills and industrial expertise. But we must love the job that we have at the moment. We must make it work since we are paid to do the job. It is as simple as that. As long as we are paid to do what we have agreed upon the employment, we have to do it. There is no other way.

One may wonder the long term relationship with the employer. One may take it the easy way and simply sit down and do the work that they have been assigned to do so. They will not go beyond that and when the time come, they go back. They come in the next morning, on time, and repeat the routine. There is no sign of trying to make improvement to the operations and such. Some seem to be busy doing all the work and that they complain because people around him or her do not do much. I believe busy is and over rated term in the office. When you have normal day to day work that you have to finish, that is not busy. Busy is when you have got substantial increase in the volume of work due to festive seasons, urgent request from the management due to internal investigation, project colleague resigned after submitting 24-hour notice and the boss asked you to finish his or her work, and many more.

When you have scheduled task such as the migration of program enhancements into the live system, you may find yourself busy towards the date of the exercise. This is to ensure that everything that need to be done is in order and that all the personnel involved have been notified accordingly. There is also the preparations to make sure that the fall back plan is in order and that the operations of the entire company will not be affected.

Sometimes we just throw in the Pareto formula into the equation and we find that 80 percent of the people in the office are not busy. Only 20 percent are doing more than the rest of the company. We can also apply Bell Curve. Only 10 percent of the people in the company are doing beyond expectation, 10 percent are free loaders and bad apples and 80 percent just meet the job requirements. The free loaders and the bad apples will always have something to say about the jobs and also gossiping about others especially the bosses. Everything is not right in the company with these people and they will cheat when ever they have the opportunity to do so. If they are using the company cars, the would probably use them for personal use during the weekends or even on weekdays. They will steal the fuel and use the prepaid toll payment card for their own trips. They have all sort of reasons for justifying what they do. In their eyes they are performing above expectations for the company.

The ones in the middle range will always equate doing the job and deeming it as them doing it excellent and beyond expectation and they deserve the top of the line bonus rate. They are just doing their job and the performance rating should be just 3. That is meeting the requirements.

We are not going into this for the further part away and that some may have been justified to do so. People are always not satisfied with what they do and always complain about the human resources department. When they are home and become the human resources themselves, they cannot even manage a single employee, that's the maid. They in return always complain about the employee. They got angry for not getting any training in the office but at the same time they did not give any training to the maid when he first arrived and have to figure out what they have to do and operate in the house. 771 words at www.750words.com.

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