I have often wondered does everyone share the same worth ethic as I do? But that wondering didn’t last long. So I decided today to ask myself what exactly is work ethic? I used handy dandy Google to help me with the correct definition of the word. And to Google the definition of worth ethic is “the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward”. A good definition I believe for the word. Now do people actually believe this definition, some do and some don’t.
I come from a family (on my mothers side) of work-a-holic’s. For a bit of a back-story my mother works a good 60 hours a week on a light week, her brother who is 70 still works 6 days a week. And I am following right in the footsteps of working all the time. Most of mine besides in the office is at the barn with the horses. However, I still do consider this work because I am doing something and helping others. And if anyone else out there has horses they know anything involved around the barn is work. So I have always had ingrained in me to work, work, and work. And I do enjoy it, if I didn’t I can’t begin to imagine how bored I would be. I always have to be doing something I don’t like just sitting still. I always seem to find silly little things to do that keep myself occupied. It can be writing down and researching horse show results to see trends. Or checking pedigrees to see what crosses work on pleasure horses. I can’t even begin to imagine how many notebooks, paper have these types of things on them. I always thought they would come in useful someday (that day is still to come).
The real reason “worth ethic” has come into my head is situations in the office. While myself my mother and most others come to work and do their jobs. Others shall I say do the bear minimum. They do a little of there job daily, but don’t hurry to get things done and always keep a good amount of work in their “inboxes”. Myself, I have a set way I do things on a daily basis and because I am a bit OCD I have to do things in a certain order and have fake deadlines I give myself to get things done. Which on most days leave me getting most of all my work done 3 hours before I am supposed to be done. And while others then choose to play on the Internet, make personal phone calls and visit with other employees. What do I do? I ask people if they need me to do anything (such a good employee I am). I can’t stand just sitting and doing nothing. What really bugs me to no end is people that do nothing at work, when they have work to do. And there is a particular employee that bugs me to the core with these actions. So what to do about this…. Well I have told my supervisor (who is my mother) and well nothing really gets done. Being the sneaky employee this person is no one else catches them surfing the Internet, making phone calls, etc. but being at the desk right next to them I witness it. And as I understand my word isn’t worth anything in the way of doing something about it. They have to be caught by a supervisor. Well that’s never going to happen (they are way to sneaky to let that happen). So while it bugs me to no end.. guess it will just continue. But I am sure we all have people at the workplace that are the same exact way.
Well just needed to get that little bit off my chest, as it is something that bugs me daily. I should just learn to live with it, however, this is a situation that is kinda hard to just live with.
Until next time……
No comments:
Post a Comment