Good Morning. Yesterday I ran head long into a problem I’ve been putting off. In fairness, we all weigh our priorities and sometimes put off one thing for another. Welcome to a busy life. The problem, of course, is that issue is still waiting resolution.
As happened yesterday, my forklift driver had let his area get messy. He was angry because the person who is to be doing the trash disposal hasn’t been doing very good. He has a point – one that he expressed quite loudly when I asked him to clean things up a bit. Yet, I came to appreciate that outburst.
I’m finding it difficult to get all the things I physically need to have hands-on to get done while at the same time going about and pushing people to do the things that they are supposed to do. I have a tendency to expect people to be adults, to do what they are supposed to do. And, while I don’t have a problem coming along behind and catching the occasional fallen task, I’ve come to see that I am spending too much on catching other’s fallen tasks and not enough on attending to my own.
My rough draft of this post began to talk about how the forklift driver had allowed his area to be so messy, then got angry when I asked him to tighten it up. I’ve had to re-examine this and realize that I’ve ALSO not been doing what is right. I’ve not been holding people to account well enough. I’ve allowed things to become a problem unresolved and stacking up.
The hard part about integrity is that there is always one person who is watching, or at least should be watching: that guy in the mirror. He is the only one we are accountable to, the only one we can’t fully evade, fully lie to, fully deny has the right to the truth – no matter how uncomfortable. Gotta tell you, that guy is a real pain in the ass.
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Hi Randy. I love the post. First I know how much you try to do and yes you drive your self hard. You need to give you a break, a bit of fun time. But I have seen what you talked about when I worked for Walmart. I recorded that it was 6 months but I am not sure if it was that long. If I had nothing to do I would sweep the floor or tidy stuff up. I moved with a purpose. I was young. Several older workers took me aside and asked me to slow down and not do so much. I was like why? I was making them look bad. It was minimum wage and the company treated workers like crap, expecting free work time when people worked off the clock, which I refused to do. I also refused to do the morning Rah Rah praise Walmart and exercise morning sessions. But ya a lot of workers felt they were not getting paid or treated well so they did everything slow and half assed. I just quit. I felt I had made a deal they pay me for my time and during that time I did the best I could do. Seems that feeling is not felt by everyone. Hugs
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Hi Scottie. One of the struggles I have is winning people over to doing the right thing without someone standing over them forcing their hand. Perceptions of what is and is not someone’s job, or what someone got away with or was unfairly treated…. it’s a constant knife edge of joy.
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randy
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