My Thoughts
Research tells us that you will spend over half of your waking life on the job. Think about that for just a moment- over half of your life. That’s more time than you spend at home with those you love the most. Imagine spending this time of your life engaging in office gossip, politicking, sowing words of discord and disunity between and among groups within your organisation.
The organisation you work for deserves your productivity not just your activity; executive management deserves to earn your heart service not your eye or lip service; the Board of Directors deserve to profit from your creativity not your craftiness.
Even if you are not meeting up with the target your organisation has set for you yet, your attitude to work should be positive enough to convince you that you are reaching for the stars. This attitude is not necessarily a ‘show off’ to make your boss, colleague or customer feel that you are working. It is genuine commitment to your task.
True, moral becomes very low when our bosses don’t recognize what we are doing. Especially when you put in all your efforts but the eventual outcome is not pleasurable. This is no fault of yours. Maybe the reason for this undesired result is another person’s negligence, price differentiation, government policy, system malfunction or even force majeure. Is the right response neglecting your duty? Is the right response forming a Pity Party Association where you gossip your concerns so that we can have the approval of others in similar situation?
Imagine the congestion of people in several religious gatherings in present day Nigeria and the consequent congestion of requests travelling the airwaves from the hearts and mouths of people in such gatherings on toward the heavens; asking for breakthrough, success, promotion, new job, better job, better pay, better year, good health and generally a better life.
It is true that despite our faithfulness, God’s faithfulness endures forever but, He expressly told us in His word that he that is faithful in little, more shall be committed to his hands. In another place, the scripture says that you pray and you don’t receive because you pray amidst- contrary to God’s will. It is impossible to expect a faithful answer from a faithful God while we wallow in unrepentant unfaithfulness on our job.
It is worthy of note that we wear our white robes of Christianity on Sundays and we are quick to put them off by Sunday evening in preparation for work the following day. When compared to people of other faiths, it has been observed that those who pledge allegiance to Christ are the most devious and cunning when they are out of the confines of the church especially in dealing with other Christians.
How should we then conduct ourselves in the midst of these gossips, politicking and deceit? How do we position for productivity, heart service and creativity? How do we deal with issues of not being appreciated even when we have put in our best? Why and how should we remain committed even when we are not achieving the desired results? What do we need to do to remain faithful in our jobs so as to enjoy God’s ever faithful blessings through answered prayers? How do we carry our Christianity into our reality Monday through Friday?
Based on the above thoughts stemming from discussions and observation of the hostilities in the workplace, God placed it in my heart to share my thoughts on The Ten Commandments of Working In A Hostile Environment with my friends on face book.
Always know that you are supposed to be a solution to a management identified problem rather than being the problem management needs to solve urgently.
