Comments on: Compliance and Radar Detectors: A Lesson in the Dark

By: Alfred

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:21:28 +0000

Hi Susan,
So far no one else has responded to Skip Moen’s article on “Compliance and Radar Detectors: A Lesson in the Dark” . Yet, maybe I need to clarify what I wrote a few weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking that when you help someone find Jesus you “participate in rebuilding someone else’s life”. Then, as Skip Moen says, “the values that motivate us are altered. Good and even great transformation begins with personal values alteration. Anything less guarantees failure.” Wishing you all the best on the job (with God as your employer)!

By: Alfred

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:56:08 +0000

Hi Susan,
You are in quite a situation! I had to ponder this one for a few days, but have a few thoughts now. Are you in a big company where all branch offices are not alike? Then a different set of rules is needed for job where you are. Might it be feasible to ask that the rules be changed to match your tasks? How can anyone put forth a top effort when walking on egg shells? The second possibility is to just do what is required (like you co-workers are doing) regardless of rules. In that case, however, the possibility of moving to a different company and a new job may be anytime. A third thing, is to ask God daily what He wants you to do. The job is only a job, but to be “doing what HE wants you to” is of highest priority. For example, there may be someone working there who is looking to meet Jesus, and God is giving you the opportunity to help that person who is searching. Doing that, gives your life a purpose!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:02:30 +0000

When you work for an organisation and the first training course that you are sent on is about boundaries i.e. when it is appropriate to break the organisation’s rules and when it isn’t you know that there is a fundmental problem within the organisation. The first thing you notice when you read the rules is that it is impossible to do your job and keep the rules at the same time. Not just difficult as with the old work to rule form of industrial action but genuinely impossible. Then when you are accused of breaking the rules because they cannot believe that could have bothered to try to keep them you know that it is time to look for an alternative.