Fragile Handle With Care

I have always been a hard worker. It was instilled in me by my grandmother. It is important to me to do my best on my job, no matter how I feel.  So it pains me to write that I have strong feelings about my place of employment. I don't hate where I work. It pays my bills and provides for my family in a way that I am very thankful for.

But there are some places that can take a good employee and beat them down into lazy, passive, bitter, robots.  Let me explain.

Take an awesome worker. Comes to work everyday. Rarely calls in. Doesn't leave early and even comes to work early to make sure they clock in on time. They work hard regardless of who helps or who is there because their focus is on the job, not on what other people are doing.

That's the perfect or near perfect employee, right? So any employer would be remiss in not acknowledging this said near perfect employee.  Well, then welcome to the real world.

Often times, a company's focus is one single objective: Get the work done. They don't care who is sick, who has called in, who may be hurt, they just want to get the work done. Period. ''

So how does a good employee deal with this type of mindset? How can YOU out there stop yourself from becoming a bitter, passive employee?

1.  Change your focus - your job is not about you. It is about getting the work done. I'm not saying you have to allow your employer to mistreat you. Not at all. But what I am saying is that you do are to do what you were hired to do as long as it doesn't conflict with your moral or legal compass.
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