Open Blog June 20, 2006

There's this saying that constantly makes you re-evaulate your life. Makes you realize that you may be taking people, events, and life itself for granted. Makes you call your siblings and parents just to tell them that you love them.
These words of enlightenment are, "you never know what you have until it's gone".
I have found this to be true within the last week, and it's taking its' toll on me. My work flow coordinator past away on the sixth of this month, and I truly realize how much she contributed to our daily activities in the workplace. It made me realize that cross training among the teams needed to be performed, and that it's not good business to allow so few people to hold all the knowldege. Because you'll find yourself doing long hours and scrambling to find someone to help fill in on some of the task that need to be done. Unfortunately, some of my fellow co-workers aren't seeing their jobs as a blessing. They continue to utter things such as, "they do not pay me enough to do this", "it's not my job", and my personal favorite, "why can't you have someone else do it?"
I've also found out that having a job can fall under the spell of the above saying. I know too many friends and family members that have lost their jobs, and are having a very hard time finding new ones. I may not make Donald Trump money, but I am one of the luck ones these days. I have decent benefits, vacation time, flextime, and best of all, a paycheck.
What ever happen to work ethics? When I wake up each morning to go to work, I get up with the intention to give my place of employment the best I have that day. No matter what my mood may be, or having to pick up the slack of fellow co-workers, I know that I gave it a 110% each day.
I may be tooting my own horn just a bit, but who else is going plays this instrument?