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I’m much more aware these days of the “in the world but not of the world” proposition and how futile it is to get upset about it – because we know it’s coming. I think as a Christian u truly see this divide like nothing else.
I’ve read some excellent specific anecdotes here. My take concerns more the macro level of events as I feel the whole Judeo-Christian cultural bedrock of the West dissolving before my eyes in the space of a generation.
Gay marriage and transvestite washrooms – oh my word….and how easy the ‘world’ has turned out to accommodate these tectonic shifts. The world shrugs.
‘Cultural Christianity’ is being shown the door with actual Christians being ever more isolated and tested. I hope the next 20 years aren’t anything like the last 20 but I’ll wager the slide continues.
In my squandered youth I remember a friend of my parents’ generation telling me they felt sorry for my generation as they could see a degeneration I couldn’t – but man I think we have it easy compared to generations to come.
As an aside I see the MSM as the very epitome of the ‘world’. One of the very epitomes lol.
And on the "..walls of Jerusalem" – I’ll hafta give it some thought
I’m much more aware these days of the “in the world but not of the world” proposition and how futile it is to get upset about it – because we know it’s coming. I think as a Christian u truly see this divide like nothing else.
I’ve read some excellent specific anecdotes here. My take concerns more the macro level of events as I feel the whole Judeo-Christian cultural bedrock of the West dissolving before my eyes in the space of a generation.
Gay marriage and transvestite washrooms – oh my word….and how easy the ‘world’ has turned out to accommodate these tectonic shifts. The world shrugs.
‘Cultural Christianity’ is being shown the door with actual Christians being ever more isolated and tested. I hope the next 20 years aren’t anything like the last 20 but I’ll wager the slide continues.
In my squandered youth I remember a friend of my parents’ generation telling me they felt sorry for my generation as they could see a degeneration I couldn’t – but man I think we have it easy compared to generations to come.
As an aside I see the MSM as the very epitome of the ‘world’. One of the very epitomes lol.
And on the "..walls of Jerusalem" – I’ll hafta give it some thought
Hi lynn! 
Maybe you shouldn't try to "fix it."
Maybe you should just trust that He really does guide your steps.
After all, how would you know that He doesn't want you with a worldly agent for His own purposes? He has let men be unjustly thrown in prison to accomplish His purposes...
A man makes his plans, but it is God who guides his steps. (Think that's in proverbs).
Maybe you shouldn't try to "fix it."
Maybe you should just trust that He really does guide your steps.
After all, how would you know that He doesn't want you with a worldly agent for His own purposes? He has let men be unjustly thrown in prison to accomplish His purposes...
A man makes his plans, but it is God who guides his steps. (Think that's in proverbs).
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Hi lynn!
Maybe you shouldn't try to "fix it."
Maybe you should just trust that He really does guide your steps.
After all, how would you know that He doesn't want you with a worldly agent for His own purposes? He has let men be unjustly thrown in prison to accomplish His purposes...
A man makes his plans, but it is God who guides his steps. (Think that's in proverbs).
Maybe you shouldn't try to "fix it."
Maybe you should just trust that He really does guide your steps.
After all, how would you know that He doesn't want you with a worldly agent for His own purposes? He has let men be unjustly thrown in prison to accomplish His purposes...
A man makes his plans, but it is God who guides his steps. (Think that's in proverbs).
And honestly, I don't want to work with agents that promote LBGT because of who my agent needs to be. My novel is for middle-graders (MG) -- 8-12 y.o. So the agents I'm looking at already work in the children's book field. Usually they promote picture books, MG, and YA. Catching the problem yet? (Probably, but just in case.) They're actively seeking books for children to convert them into believing LBGT is normal.
I really don't have a problem with such books for adults. If my novel was mainstream, (for adults in their lingo), I would have much less of a problem with it. But, noper. Not going to work with someone out to brainwash kids at such a young age.
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why do you always like to drop 'bombs' and then ski-daddle?
it's kind of like going fishing because your body is craving fish, and then, after the 'catch',
you let him go', if your going to say something so intimate, you know, just lay it out there...,
most of us are grown-up enough to not be 'surprised' by to much of ANYTHING,
that we can't imagine...I'm talking a certain 'age here'...
and NO, He doesn't do anything according to 'our-standards or our thoughts'...
why do you always like to drop 'bombs' and then ski-daddle?
it's kind of like going fishing because your body is craving fish, and then, after the 'catch',
you let him go', if your going to say something so intimate, you know, just lay it out there...,
most of us are grown-up enough to not be 'surprised' by to much of ANYTHING,
that we can't imagine...I'm talking a certain 'age here'...
and NO, He doesn't do anything according to 'our-standards or our thoughts'...
He knows His sheep?
But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers. (Jn 10:2-5)
i wonder.....
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that's what i was thinking! great minds. lol
But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers. (Jn 10:2-5)
i wonder.....
But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers. (Jn 10:2-5)
i wonder.....
M
Thats a cinch, my whole life has been a test of mettle. It still is both at home and work.
Like today, manager asks for a little job chat.
Asks me how I'm going with my work loads as I seem to be keeping up to date.
Then anounces that the bloke I sit next to is struggling with his work load and to
give him time to catch up, she would like me to take all his new cases for the next
4 weeks.
Only i work 3 days a week, he works 5 days a week. So for the next month I will have
to do his work and my work! Somehow try to cram an 8 day week into 3 days!
He is behind because he is never there, he smokes and goes for a cigarette at least 4
times a day. I know cos I end up dealing with his phone calls. Plus even when he isn't
having a ciggy break, he is often away from his desk for 15-20 mins at a time for no
apparent reason. The other day he was messaging a friend in another office for several
minutes.
But hey. We won't bother to call him to one side and have words with him, just get
Miri the part timer who is more up to date, to do his work!
I should add that each case takes anything from 10 weeks to 26 weeks to resolve,
longer if they end up at public inquiries or in chambers meetings. So the cases
I will take over the next month, could remain with me still working through them
for a long time. It's not like it's just for 4 weeks.
Another test of zipping it and let God work it out because I just don't know how to
any more.
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Why zip it? Why not ask her to talk with him to figure out ways he can handle is job better? It's not being snotty. It just seems to me that a boss/employee relationship requires give and take.
I suspect she knows exactly what's going on and you're her easy-way to deal with it.
(And, for the record, I took 2-3 smoke breaks, but made up for them by coming in early and taking work with me to lunch. Actually, taking work with me to lunch was great, because I left the building so no phones, coworkers, customers, or bosses stopping by to interrupt. lol)
I suspect she knows exactly what's going on and you're her easy-way to deal with it.
(And, for the record, I took 2-3 smoke breaks, but made up for them by coming in early and taking work with me to lunch. Actually, taking work with me to lunch was great, because I left the building so no phones, coworkers, customers, or bosses stopping by to interrupt. lol)
M
My manager said he is less experienced than me and doesn't know how to do the
larger complicated cases. I've been there longer yes, but he has been there nearly
3 years so he should be experienced by now.
She said she likes that I think outside the box. Her reason to give me more work.
Surely it would be better to make sure he knows how to do the work. Sigh.
But yet that same thinking outside the box got me in trouble a couple of years back.
(See previous post).
Managers know what's going on but turn a blind eye when they can't be bothered to
deal with it. My manager is going to America for 5 weeks in September. She just wants
a quiet life for a few weeks and doesn't want anything to rock the boat, so she can
get on top of her own work quickly and go off for a nice relaxing holiday.
larger complicated cases. I've been there longer yes, but he has been there nearly
3 years so he should be experienced by now.
She said she likes that I think outside the box. Her reason to give me more work.
Surely it would be better to make sure he knows how to do the work. Sigh.
But yet that same thinking outside the box got me in trouble a couple of years back.
(See previous post).
Managers know what's going on but turn a blind eye when they can't be bothered to
deal with it. My manager is going to America for 5 weeks in September. She just wants
a quiet life for a few weeks and doesn't want anything to rock the boat, so she can
get on top of her own work quickly and go off for a nice relaxing holiday.
D
Suggestion, and yeah, I bet she'll wait until after America to implement it. How about offering her either a brain picking session or a teaching opportunity? i.e. Offer to give coworkers a rundown on how you're able to get your work done in a timely way? I'm not sure if that is a 1 hour meeting, a 2-3 hour meeting, or an entire seminar to explain it, but if you know how, and they don't, then it's the most effective way towards efficiency for the department.
Honestly, as someone who was forever pressed to meet deadlines, I'd appreciate a coworker teaching me ways to keep ahead of it. If it was from someone who thought they knew more than I do, I could see getting annoyed, but that's not your personality. And, frankly, if she's not into the idea, then this will be a reoccurring problem for the rest of your time working there. Except it will continue to get worse, because she absolutely knows to give the busy person more work so the lazy people don't mess up her performance grades.
Considering you aren't in a place in your life to look for a new job, it seems like a fair solution. And, yup, you still have to do his work for a couple of months, but hopefully America rubs off on her, and she gets some idea what doing her job should be like, since she won't be getting help from government workers over here. (Yeah, government work over here, is like what you have -- twice the number of people needed to get the work done because half the workers rarely work.)
If she doesn't go for it, do you have any way of making suggestions like this to upper management?
The more you do, the more she will pile on you to do. At some point in time, you go insane or become so physically exhausted you can't do it anymore, lose the job, and she keeps hers.
Honestly, as someone who was forever pressed to meet deadlines, I'd appreciate a coworker teaching me ways to keep ahead of it. If it was from someone who thought they knew more than I do, I could see getting annoyed, but that's not your personality. And, frankly, if she's not into the idea, then this will be a reoccurring problem for the rest of your time working there. Except it will continue to get worse, because she absolutely knows to give the busy person more work so the lazy people don't mess up her performance grades.
Considering you aren't in a place in your life to look for a new job, it seems like a fair solution. And, yup, you still have to do his work for a couple of months, but hopefully America rubs off on her, and she gets some idea what doing her job should be like, since she won't be getting help from government workers over here. (Yeah, government work over here, is like what you have -- twice the number of people needed to get the work done because half the workers rarely work.
)If she doesn't go for it, do you have any way of making suggestions like this to upper management?
The more you do, the more she will pile on you to do. At some point in time, you go insane or become so physically exhausted you can't do it anymore, lose the job, and she keeps hers.