Saturday, October 14, 2017

appreciation breakfast

So, Monday is Boss's Day. Right now the work atmosphere is stressed and toxic.  Has been for months.  No improvement in sight.

Not much enthusiasm or gratitude for how management is running things. 

Someone, however, (special assistant to the Section Manager, I think) has attempted to organize a section wide Boss Appreciation Breakfast Potluck. I looked at the sign-up sheet. Little over a dozen sign-ups (20 tops, but I don't think so,  out of somewhere around 50-60 employees) (Some of that is the natural indecision about what to bring perhaps, but ...) The only one from our unit who has signed up works apart in both space and duties from rest of us.  You should see the faces when Boss Appreciation Day is mentioned.  or maybe you would rather not

What to do?

Besides not feeling especially appreciative of my boss(es), part of the problem is that we are only allowed to work on our regular work on Mondays and Wednesdays.  So we have 2 days to try to do 5 full day jobs with which I had trouble keeping up full time.  I do not want to give up any of my "real" job time.  People are counting on us and we are causing hardships because we cannot keep up.  If it was one of the 3 project days (plus some Saturdays) I would not mind so much.

Members of our team have heard the supervisor say we do not have too much work, we are lazy and too laid-back.  (to the faces of two and overheard by another)

Either management does not understand the work load or it does not care.  Or both.  My supervisor says neither, of course.   

The bosses say "make time."  Would that I had THAT skill!

I do not feel appreciative.  I do not want to spend the time.  

What would Jesus do?   I don't know.  

What would you do?

What does God say about you?

     I saw an article titled "What does God say about you?"   I started thinking and remembering some of the messages I have received.

I am a child of God.
I have inherited divine characteristics which I am to learn to recognize and develop.
I have to potential to become more like God.
He wants me to come home to Heaven.
God and Jesus Christ love me so much that Christ suffered unimaginable pain to redeem me from death and sin.



Psalms 82:6

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.


Friday the 13th post a day late

On Friday the 13th I wanted to list 13 reasons I feel lucky, but I just couldn't find the time and energy.   I could easily cheat and list 8*5*8 -  my children, their spouses, and their children - which are high on any list of my blessings, but as you can see it is more than 13 and it was Friday the 13th.  No, not every day gets its number recognition, but Friday the 13th is fun.  Anyway, in no order whatsoever -

1. I am lucky that my mother was lying bored in her parents' home recovering from multiple broken bones and having read everything in the house when two young men came to the door with a new book.  Would I have been blessed to find the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints if they had not found her?  Would I have recognized and accepted the gospel?  I hope so, but I am grateful that she read that book, visited with the missionaries, and accepted the gospel.

2.  I am lucky to have been born a citizen of the United States of America.  This is the land of promise, the land I love, a land of beauty, variety, opportunity and freedom. 

3. In the midst of all the fires around the state and news of the devastation and others homeless because of natural or man caused disasters, I am lucky to have a home .

4.  I am lucky to be able to see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and move. 

5.  I am lucky to always have food to eat and to have never known the fear of going hungry.

6.  I m lucky to have an excellent credit rating after escaping a marriage where love had been strangled and starved to a man whose secret spending took us to the verge of a 2nd bankruptcy.

7.  I am lucky because we have infastructure!  Plumbing! 

8.  Good roads

9. Garbage pick up

10.  Electricity

 -  is that cheating?  Should I have left them all under infrastructure?  I am not very consistent am I?   #4 could have been #4,5,6,7,8, and 9. and my count would have been over a while back.

11. Stores near by full of so many wonderful things.  We have so many choices and opportunities.  It is sometimes fun to walk through a store and know so much is available that I don't want or need.  I know, weird, but kind of a nice antidote to envy.

12.  I am lucky to have a nice car, a good, bike, and public transportation available.    (12, 13,14? but it is supposed to be 13.  I know I seem to have problems counting consistently.  You make your list if you want it done right.)

13.  First, last, and always I am lucky to have been taught and to have received confirmation that I am a child of God and He loves me.

I could go on but this was for Friday the 13th so 13. 

What makes you feel lucky?

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