Dec 18, 2023·edited Dec 18, 2023Liked by Winkfield Twyman
I LOVE this one!! You remind me of how unhappy I was most of the years I was working.
I worked in a lot of offices over the years, and I discovered exactly what you have written about. People are not encouraged to meet their own potentials. We are “worker bees,” and there are rules. Creativity is not encouraged, and yet, there is so much untapped potential! Personally, I could have, and would have loved, doing more. I always, always wanted to learn, but that wasn’t what they really cared about. Show up, do your job, get along with your coworkers, and we’ll see you again tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.
And two other things: meetings and rules.
Because there are so many “managers,” they have to have meetings, and lots of them. They have staff meetings and meeting with one another. They have so many meetings, that they will have meetings to figure out when to have meetings.
Then there are the “rules.” Okay, we all need some rules, I guess. But it was the ones that made no sense until you discovered that something happened one time, many years ago, and the company decided it required a rule so that it never happens again. (We can never use that convenient exit door because John Smith forgot to lock it 10 years ago. That’s just how it is, now and forevermore.)
I LOVE this one!! You remind me of how unhappy I was most of the years I was working.
I worked in a lot of offices over the years, and I discovered exactly what you have written about. People are not encouraged to meet their own potentials. We are “worker bees,” and there are rules. Creativity is not encouraged, and yet, there is so much untapped potential! Personally, I could have, and would have loved, doing more. I always, always wanted to learn, but that wasn’t what they really cared about. Show up, do your job, get along with your coworkers, and we’ll see you again tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.
And two other things: meetings and rules.
Because there are so many “managers,” they have to have meetings, and lots of them. They have staff meetings and meeting with one another. They have so many meetings, that they will have meetings to figure out when to have meetings.
Then there are the “rules.” Okay, we all need some rules, I guess. But it was the ones that made no sense until you discovered that something happened one time, many years ago, and the company decided it required a rule so that it never happens again. (We can never use that convenient exit door because John Smith forgot to lock it 10 years ago. That’s just how it is, now and forevermore.)
Glad you loved it! Too many of us are just elves from day to day.