"The vet did WHAT down there?!?"
Does no one respect loyalty, ethics and integrity any longer? The last few days....weeks....have really made me question some of the things I truly believed in....some of the things that are the tenants of my foundation. My issues with work haven't been a real secret. I blog about it enough I might as well change the name of my blog to some quirky spin on "Days of our Lives". But, today, I think it all really hit home for me. Today was a huge rollercoaster. It was bad enough last week when people who I have relationships with outside of the office, people who call my home....questioned my professional ethics. Anyone who knows me professionally knows, my professionalism is one of the things I pride myself on the most. During that call on Tuesday...when I thought I would know my future and could grab hold of it with both hands one way or the other...I was very disappointed that the loyalty I've shown to this organization...these people....wasn't repaid. I can't tell you the number of times this week I've heard..."It's just business." Now while I agree sometimes it is just business....you don't spend 9 years of blood, sweat, tears in an organization....especially one in the human services industry...and not bond with people and develop confidants and friends. While I can understand on some level it has to be just business...was it just business when I was putting in 60-70 hours a week and not getting paid? No. Was it just business when I had to listen to my daughter pitch for the first time on the cell phone because no one else would take the meeting and I was stuck in Lubbock? No. If you've ever been to Lubbock...you know you want to be anywhere but there! Mac Davis had it soooooo very right...Happiness is Lubbock, Texas in your rearview mirror. Anyway....my point here is...even if it were simply just business there is a moral and ethical code that we as professionals should ascribe to and believe in. These are the simple things we learn in gradeschool...treat others as you want to be treated....if you don't have something nice to say...always tell the truth....I think this is a bigger reflection of what got us in to trouble with Wall Street....we stopped living by those tenants and started ascribing to "It's just business". For the man who is laid off in Detroit because GM is shutting the plant but the CEO who mismanaged the company for year is still getting his big fat bonus...what do we hear..."It's just business." That doesn't put food in the employees kids bellies. But that fat cat CEO is off on some private island somewhere with his 20 something mistress and his big fat hairy white belly hanging over his speedo smoking his stogey all the while laughing all the way to the bank. That brings me back to my own situation. I still want to believe people even business people will do the right thing when given the opportunity. I want to have faith that justice does prevail and when the day is done I know that even if I wasn't shown the courtesy, compassion or respect I deserved...I personal did the right thing. I lived up to my word...I looked out for the greater good....and to me...that is the true business of life.... Just another senseless rant from a tired Pandora xoxo
2 comments:
You talk about loyalty and integrity... it seems that those are qualities that are limited supply. I think that the lack of ethics and basic morals are the reason why it is so hard to trust anyone nowdays. "Just business" is just an excuse that people use to avoid doing the right thing. They say it to justify doing the easy, selfish thing.
I am proud that you have chosen to do what so many are not willing to do. I am proud that you can demonstrate that these qualities are not gone from the world. I am proud you are my friend.
Awww shucks :)
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