Thanksgiving

Yeah, I know it has been a couple weeks since I lasted posted. Things have been kind of crazy at work and I really try not to be online when I am home because I am on it so much when I am at work.

Well Thanksgiving was awesome this year, and not because I had three T. dinners in less than a week. It was awesome because Christi and me went up to folks house Thursday for dinner, and it was the most relaxed and enjoyable Thanksgiving I have had since the two of us started dating. In 2000, my grandpa was diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of months before Thanksgiving. So that year was good because I realized what it meant to have such an awesome grandpa and grandma, but sad and scary because we were affraid that the treatment may not work. That was the last relaxed Thanksgiving I had till this year, and it is amazing how several stressful years of holidays at my folks made me not want to be there for the holidays. What really amazed me is that I realized that the largest source of stress came from one person being there. I did not realize how much of a negative impact this person had been having on my family and how we spent the holidays till this year.

So is it bad that I was thankful that this individual made other plans this holiday and was not able to spend it with us? After all, I was very glad not to have answer questions to the third degree nor worry about my wife, brother nor sister being grilled as well. And I think my parents were also glad and relieved for this reason too.

Oh well, it was a good Thanksgiving and I am not going to feel bad for being happy that a certain was not there this Thanksgiving.

Blame Game

Do you ever pay attention to the news and here how many want to sue companies for not warning their customers not be morons with their products? Ever read the safety warning on a hammer? It says "Caution, wear safety glasses, object may fly upward when struck. Make sure to strike object squarely." Does that not seem a little obvious to the user?

It just floors me that we live in a society where we demand people to do more and yet we refuse to take responsibility for our own actions and moronic mistakes. And for me I just had this hit me squarly in the head the other day. One of departments that uses the information that my department creates has recently been asking us to do more work for them to make their lives easier; work that has no relevance to our department and that takes up more of our time. Yet, they have been complaining more and more about very little mistakes that occur occasionally in the work that we do; half of these mistakes results from the people who we get the information from (I could go into very long detail about how the process works, but I won't) because they are able to alter the information in the system after we have already finished our work so it looks like we screwed up, even though we did the job right with the information we had on hand at the time.

And to make matters worse I have come to find out that the very department that we have been bending over backwords for has a sheet to track the mistakes our department makes, whether or not they are truly our fault. They do this to throw in our face to tell us that we are not being efficient enough. Part this other department's job is to double check our work to make sure it matches with the department that sends us the information, and if there is a difference then they are suppose to let us know, just on the off chance the information deparment has changed something and did not bother to tell us.

It just totally floors me that we are asked to do other people's work and instead of getting thanks we get complaints about minor mistakes that we make. This is not very encouraging for "Team Work".

What really drives me nuts is that this is not how God intended it. This is not how we are suppose to treat each other. And what really gets me down is that several of these people are Chrsitians, or at least they claim to be, and they treat other people like this.

But what really scares me is that I can see myself turning into one of them, I am starting to cover my butte however I can, even if it means passing the blame on. And I really hate doing that because I believe in the principle that you take the stuff that comes your way and you don't pass it on, especially if it is over small potatoes. Yet, I am finding myself passing the buck now, or at least wanting to. Being a temp means I have no way of passing the buck.

Those of who know me, please pray for God to fill me with grace and Holy Spirit, and for Him to fill this place. I do not want to become one of those people, especially since it would hurt my chances of reaching out to people.

Thanks my friends, my brothers, and my sisters.