Don’t bite the hand that feeds you…

I have seen day in and out people who feel like they are owed something from their employer.  People seem to think that they do their employer a favor by simply existing and because of that they are entitled to something.  To those people I pose the following question:

“Who was hired to do a job?”

Seriously.  Who was hired?  Before you were employed you either did not have a source of income or were relying someone else to provide you with one.  Working in the ministry field I have often been faced with the thought that I may come in to get my paycheck and there not be any money to pay me.  So what motivates me to do my job?  It’s the thought that I am doing something to better society and I am doing something I love.

Now before I am called a socialist, I still expect to get my paycheck.  But it is a far cry from thinking that someone owes me for existing.

I wake up every day knowing that what I am doing with my life is exactly what I want to do.  Work is not work because I am paid to do what I love to do.  The paycheck just happens to be a bonus.

Working at Zaxby’s I see people stealing cookies all the time.  I call them out on it and they literally say that they are not stealing.  When they say they are not stealing I ask them what the act they are performing is called and they cannot give me an answer, they just do it anyways.  Why is it that they think they are entitled to something that is not theirs?  Does that mean that because I work at the radio station that I should be free to take one of the mics because I do not think that they pay me enough?  That would be ludicrous.  When I was hired by the radio station (which by the way I worked at for free for 4 months) I agreed to work at a specific pay scale.  I signed a contract.  That contract says what my payscale is and I agreed to it.

We as humans have to stop believing that our employers owe us something.  Think about what you can do to help other people with your job.  And stop biting the hand that feeds you.  Because if you do not, it will eventually stop feeding you, and that is never fun.  Because then you starve.

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