high expectations low realities

take this job and shove it

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…