It's easier to just show up and gripe everyday about how the company is destroying their lives and ***** about anything that is negative because it allows them to say "I told you so"...the alternative, of course, would be to take personal responsibility for making something good happen...that does involve risk, and for some, entirely too much pressure..And I am not going to be interested in stories about how you have been that responsible person all these years, because that just makes you part of a very large group of special people...I am talking about today, during these times of economic despair (that I know you would prefer to think was dreamed up by Con-way management just to oppress you) when there are still a great many who continue to be that responsible person....those are the people I am hanging my hat with now, because if there is going to be "the other side" of this mess we are in as a country, I want to be standing next to them when we get there, just to say thanks...and that has nothing to do with "kool-Aid" (which I always hated, even as a kid)...It's the committment I made when I was asking for a job and needed one way back when..
Very well said.
My 2 cents.
There will always be negative people on these message boards, it's so much easier to join in and complain, point fingers and whine than it is to forge a positive path. The negatives seem to always outweigh the positives in here, the moment you speak positive you are stereotyped kool-aid drinker.
Why the total disgruntled worker don't leave is beyond me. I have a few ideas why but it just makes more sense to be a part of the solution than apart of the problem.
Reminds me of the saying,
"You can do a million good things and it never get's noticed, once you do a bad thing the whole world knows."
Well here is the whole world and here are most of the bad things being documented.
In todays time, it is what it is right now and it's all up to us, in our own individual ways to make that change. Big steps, small steps, incremental steps, it all adds up. Teamwork makes leaps and bounds or you can sit back and wait for the world to change.
Personally I choose to forge a positive path and have no problem poking around in the negative stuff. I guess I would be called a "Bi"
Here is a video that inspires me every time I watch it.
I know it was used for the Obama campaign but the lyrics speaks a million positive words.
You can put those words into your own personal situation and forge a positive path to change. Pay it forward do good things and you will all feel good about everything.
My American Prayer
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I got my Colin Braun flamesuit on.
I also don't drink kool-aid, never did and left the company on my own terms. 100% best thing I ever did. I am happy. I was also Happy at Con-way. I am just following my own path.
Whoopdedoo!!!! Every time he starts that gas guzzling, eco-unfriendly engine, it brings to mind that at one point in my career at Con-Way, I had a real PROMISED pension. The $$$$ we spend on that pathetic truck would more than pay the pensions PROMISED to us!
