Faulty Perception

Faulty Perception

I have noticed an interesting phenomenon. While we have a job and diligently try to do our best work day in and day out we come to think of ourselves as indispensable to our organizations. We go to work even when we’re sick because we don’t want to let the team down. We stay past our regular hours to help out a co-worker, We work overtime and don’t charge the organization for it. We think that because we do these things there should be little chance of us losing our jobs. Then things start to change. The company wants to go in a different direction. They want to cut costs in every possible way available to them. So you wake up one morning and realize that you don’t have to go about your usual routines to get ready for work. You no longer have a job. The organization has been a good part of your life for as long as you can remember.

To add insult to injury it is not long before anyone even remembers you. Time moves on. You now know that you have to reinvent yourself. You are now fully aware that you were nowhere near as important to the organization as you thought you were. The truth is that nobody really cares. The machine must keep on going and you were merely a cog in the mechanism that it no longer requires. The sad part is that you are now wiser but are also more cynical and jaded.