How often do you expect to get fired?
I’ve met people who are convinced that the next day at work will likely be their last. Over time, this expectation becomes reality. Flakes would call this manifesting.
A fool understands that those fearing getting fired likely HOPE to be fired. Most of the time when someone is afraid of being fired, they hate their job. Oh sure they’ll crow on about how much they ‘need it’. At their core though? They likely hate it and are paralyzed by an expectation.
These days so many of us expect that we will be treated well at work. We expect that others will get along with us and want the same things as us. We expect that we will do well at and progress in our chosen careers.
We expect to progress.
We expect a boss who acts with fairness.
When we’ve been there a while, we expect respect, that people will want to know what we have to share and contribute.
We expect that our seniority will keep us safe.
We leave school, taught by ‘experts’ expecting to do great work we’re proud of and make a difference right away. We don’t expect to be someone’s little bitch for the first few years of our career.
We don’t expect the menial, boring, soul annihilating reality that exists in the corporate, bureaucratic world.
We don’t expect our bosses to use shame to manipulate us.
We don’t expect to be bullied at work.
We don’t expect to be stonewalled when we want to make a difference.
We don’t expect to be fired without cause after twenty years.
We don’t expect to be ignored and have our world view questioned or overturned by a younger generation asking for moar virtue signaling bullshit.
We don’t expect that we’ll get fired.
We don’t expect that we will be asked to do sixty hours of work during a forty hour work week.
We don’t expect to be harassed by our employers or clients while on our down time.
We don’t expect that we will become involved in interpersonal struggles that take up way more time and effort than our actual work.
We don’t expect that the boss will try to fuck us.
We don’t expect sexual harassment allegations when we engage in gentle flirting.
When it comes to our careers, our high expectations interfere with our ability to engage with the reality on the ground.
We go to work with idiotically HIGH expectations of ourselves and of others.
When dealing with people, you’ve gotta remember that you’re dealing with incomplete barely competent worms who are going to die soon.
When it comes to a career, ordinary fools have high expectations of themselves and others. Remarkable fools know how to lower the bar.
When, how and where have you lowered the bar for yourself and for others?
How has that changed things?
And, as an added bonus, here’s a great little ditty from Johnny Paycheck.