THE WORKPLACE AND YOU - A PAID HAND IS A PAID HAND
Nature is a good teacher if a person chooses to learn at its feet. Every living system gets born, grows, gets old and redundant and dies off to make room for something new. So it is with an employee's work life cycle. You get hired, get trained , grow in the profession, get stuck at management level where your experience rather than initiative is valued, get redundant (no matter the training and retraining courses attended), and get laid off or throw in the towel to collect your gold wrist watch for long service.
That is the natural course of events, even for the Managing director of a Multinational corporation. Sadly, we have too many people in the workplace who cling on to the job, to a particular office, to a particular office resource (company car, desk, work space, even staff), to a particular procedure or process and to a particular mindset, that impede organizational growth.
Have we not witnessed members of staff who falsify their qualifications, marital statuses, medical records and other critical personal information and or pay bribes (in cash or kind) to ensure they remain in a department, location or get promotion so as remain in the comfort zone that ensures their survival in the corporate jungle? And for what, to stay a little while longer in the system?
Ultimately, every employee will leave paid employment no matter how invaluable he/she might be. So instead of spending time scheming to be indispensable to the company by means other than putting in dedicated service for the number of years you remain a hired hand, a discerning employee should develop skills, aptitude and knowledge that would position him to be able to become an external consultant/resource person for his current employer and or industry when circumstances present itself for him/her to either resign or be retired.
A paid hand is a paid hand, no matter how long you work for, or what level you rise to within a corporation.
Victor Idem (ACIA) (c) 2016
Nature is a good teacher if a person chooses to learn at its feet. Every living system gets born, grows, gets old and redundant and dies off to make room for something new. So it is with an employee's work life cycle. You get hired, get trained , grow in the profession, get stuck at management level where your experience rather than initiative is valued, get redundant (no matter the training and retraining courses attended), and get laid off or throw in the towel to collect your gold wrist watch for long service.
That is the natural course of events, even for the Managing director of a Multinational corporation. Sadly, we have too many people in the workplace who cling on to the job, to a particular office, to a particular office resource (company car, desk, work space, even staff), to a particular procedure or process and to a particular mindset, that impede organizational growth.
Have we not witnessed members of staff who falsify their qualifications, marital statuses, medical records and other critical personal information and or pay bribes (in cash or kind) to ensure they remain in a department, location or get promotion so as remain in the comfort zone that ensures their survival in the corporate jungle? And for what, to stay a little while longer in the system?
Ultimately, every employee will leave paid employment no matter how invaluable he/she might be. So instead of spending time scheming to be indispensable to the company by means other than putting in dedicated service for the number of years you remain a hired hand, a discerning employee should develop skills, aptitude and knowledge that would position him to be able to become an external consultant/resource person for his current employer and or industry when circumstances present itself for him/her to either resign or be retired.
A paid hand is a paid hand, no matter how long you work for, or what level you rise to within a corporation.
Victor Idem (ACIA) (c) 2016
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