As I’ve said before, I currently still spend my days slaving away for someone else. Even though it’s not the way I want to spend my time, I try to make the best of it. Luckily for me, I am fortunate to be able to work with a lot of good people.
Sadly, this week I got to see the “not so” good side of some of my co-workers (and my bosses).
For numerous reasons, the company’s controller decided to tender his resignation this week. This individual had only been with the company for a little over a year. During that time, he was one of those employees you didn’t really hear much about.
He wasn’t blazing any trails but he also wasn’t screwing everything up. He was just an average employee; nothing wrong with that. Right?
Almost immediately upon submitting his resignation, however, he became the worst employee ever!! His supervisor instantly spread the news that it was a “good thing he quit because he was about to be fired for poor performance”.
Did his boss really think that the rest of us were going to immediately forget that there had never been a single bad word uttered about this employee before he quit?
Is his boss (who also happens to be one of the owners) ignorant enough to think that his employees are too stupid to figure out that he’s reacting out of emotion and not out of sound business judgment?
This resignation quickly became an educational and very sad display of human nature.
I must admit that I became very intrigued with the whole situation. As I said before, I try to make the best of the time that I still have to spend in the 9 to 5 jail. This was one of those times where I got a front seat observing what I don’t ever want to do!
I witnessed first-hand the nasty, ego-bruised side of human nature. What should have been a quiet parting of ways turned into a drama-filled, angry situation.
Why is it so hard to separate personal feelings from business? Why do so many people think that just because they “own” part of a company they are somehow smarter than the people that “work” for them?
Although I don’t have the answers to the above questions, I certainly know that the following issues are something I want to avoid:
First, someone making a decision to “move on” or “pursue a new opportunity” shouldn’t incite anger and spite.
Second, the simple fact that you “own” a business (or a portion thereof) does not make you better and/or smarter than the people that work for you.
Along with identifying some things that I want to avoid, I also got a glimpse of what I will eventually have to deal with when I can finally say good bye to my JOB.
I must say, I am not looking forward to the angry egos that I almost certainly will be met with!!
For now, I have to try and concentrate more on what I want to take away from this situation. I cannot let the ignorant and unprofessional behavior of others deter me from my ultimate goal.
As unpleasant as it may become for me when I, too, beat up their egos by deciding to leave their company; the alternative would be much worse.
So I will plow forward with my goal of becoming my own boss and leave my ego (and theirs) at the door!!
~ Hope
“When the world says ‘give up’, hope whispers ‘try it one more time.” ~ Anonymous
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