Employee Tip #2 - Simple Responsibilities

The way I see it, there only two responsibilities that employees have and everything else is simply an offshoot of either of these responsibilities.

The first responsibility for any employee is to honor your agreements, especially the big one, the one that got you here. Your employer has honestly agreed to pay you for an honest day's work. So as I see it, so long as the company continues to uphold their end of the bargain (think of them giving you a paycheck) then you should be upholding your end of the deal (Hint: That would be the work part).

Stretching breaks and lunches, doing personal stuff on company time and showing up late and checking out early is not upholding your end of the deal. But the company is still expected to uphold theirs aren't they? It just doesn't seem fair that the company must keep their word but you don't have to keep yours, does it?

Perhaps things would be different if it was OK for the company to shave a few dollars here and there from your paycheck whenever they felt like they weren't getting their full value. Things would be different if they could stop paying you every time they caught you not keeping your part of the deal.

The second responsibility you have as an employee is to ensure that you rested, relaxed and ready (100%) to take on the tasks assigned to you. That means not being drunk, hungover, high or otherwise distracted. Hey, if I'm your customer, I want you to be fully present, aware and ready to keep your word let alone remember what you said you would do.

In writing here today, I realized that there is one more responsibility that needs to be mentioned. If there are people on your staff guilty of not keeping either of the first two responsibilities, then it becomes the responsibility of the rest of the staff to address the issue with the offender right away. The offender needs to know that they will not be allowed to abuse the company or impact the workload of the rest of the staff. Trust me on this, if the other staff members confronted the offender en masse, I'll bet it never happens again. If it does, plan to visit the boss and have him surgically remove the cancer from the job.

If someone has already had this discussion with you and you still want to take issue with any or all of these responsibilities, well then you've got a big problem. Good luck with that.

Kevin Burns - The Chief Instigation Officer of Laugh-Long Learning!

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