Whinging Poms?

This just in from "Management Issues"

It may seem like only yesterday that you hired them, but six months down the line nearly half of workers think they deserve to be promoted. What's more, many will jump ship if they don't move up the ladder.

I have been putting my ear out (see image) and listening to the comments and groans of frustration coming from friends and colleagues about exactly the same issue that seems to be besetting people in the UK.

Why is this happening?

Maybe because the Poms, having lost the Ashes to Australia (again!), have nothing better to do than complain about their lot in life.

Maybe this is because the UK is socked in with fog and people can't even leave the place if they want to.

Maybe this is because there is a natural (read evolutionary outcome) tendency within the UK to nothing else but bitch all day!

Maybe . . . . well let's not speculate further - let's just DEAL with the issue.

I think I have a cure which can be classified as educational and may even be capable of being funded by your work place.

Go for a long trip to a third world country and spend a little time in a battle zone or in an area that has been subject to health and/or environmental issues to boot.

Examine in detail the plight of the folks there. Note those who not only do not have enough to eat or drink, but if they have a 'job' there is no way that they can pursue it. Note that they have been reduced to basic survival mode.

With millions of people (perhaps even billions) out there just trying to survive, ask yourself whether in comparison, you are fortunate in just being alive, having a job, a place to live, and enough food and water to drink and enough time, energy and good health to actually enjoy some of your time in pursuing recreational pursuits without any fear that someone near you will explode or have fun using you for target practice.

When you realise how (relatively) well off you are, then get back into your box, stop being a complete ass and knuckle down to work instead of spending most of your day contemplating your navel and moaning about how badly off you are!

Promotion?

After less than six months? No way Jose!

Learn what you are doing, get good at it and work for a couple of years so that you can pay back the investment that your employer has made in your future.