Showing posts with label fair treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fair treatment. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Treating Others Like Ourselves

I feel strongly about fair treatment. Do you? I think you do, but I think we fail to live by those standards from time to time. Failure is inevitable, but striving is the important part.
I wasn't treated fairly this week at work. I'm a target for some reason at my job. And I'm not being a person living in denial when I say, I'm clueless as to WHY I'm the target for these idiots. But, the treatment was completely emotion-driven and wrong 100%.
What do I do about that? I'm stuck at my job because I've used my credit cards too often and need my job to help me pay that bad debt off. I can't earn what I earn anywhere else right now. I enjoy my WORK but not the people. The owner won't do anything about the unfair treatment, actually did the same thing which was even more humiliating.
So what do I do? If I report the company, I get the only lady owner in trouble and she wants to do something but is not permitted. If I report the company what retaliation will I get? I realize there are laws against that even, but it won't stop it from happening and possibly getting me fired. The weekly check would be gone and the credit debt will still be there! So for my family, reporting the company is NOT an option at this point.
So what do I do?
I chose to pray about it. I'm standing on God's promises that He declares in His Word and I'm going to start letting God deal with them. I am quite blunt with God. I tell Him if I'm mad at Him, in love with Him, hurt by Him, and then I let Him work on me. I let Him know that I hate this boss of mine and I would love to see him burning in hell one day. Now how "christian" does that sound?? It doesn't!!! So I'm going to say God's not going to allow that "desire" to be given to me, but I think He's all about giving me grace to walk through the pain and anger of all this mistreatment. I think He's all about getting me some recompense too.
What a bunny trail that was!!! Here's my real point in "blogging". The golden rule in school is to treat others the way you would have them treat you. It's in the bible as well, but if you're a nonbeliever in the bible...what do you care what it says? So just go with the idea of it all. If we treated every individual the way we want to be treated, how awesome would this world be?!? I doubt racism would exist, don't you? I doubt religious debates would take place, don't you? Or terrorism. Imagine the happy days all of us would experience if we just took the time and used the patience to treat others as if they were us standing there next to ourselves!

So let's take one "treating others" flaw out of our napsack and fix it the next few months. Watch and record your behavior towards others for a week or so, it might take some of you much less time to find the flaw you want to fix the most. Then, make a conscience effort to fix that flaw and change a person's life somewhere. It's like a smile. If you smile at someone, they smile back. Now treat someone with a smiling action and watch them do it for someone else, and that cycle can keep going on.