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Welcome to the month of Love and the shortest month of the year. It seemed as if January would never end, right? Hahahaha... I know! When you're a salary earner, you couldn't wait for the month to end, as the weeks seem to drag on and on. Thank God we're here and may this be a fruitful month for all of us.
For the past few weeks, we have been talking about Christian Work Ethics in my church, and I am thoroughly enjoying the series.
These ethics, I feel, shouldn't be particularly for the Christians. I am yet to see a religion or even the non-religious that condemn honesty, humility, fairness, etc. In our dealing with fellow human beings, we all yearn for honesty, but how honest are we?
In the workplace, the importance of honesty cannot be over emphasized, it one of the qualities of a good employee and employer/business owner. Honesty is not pretence or as we call it here 'eye-service', whereby when your boss is around, you form workaholic, but the minute he/she leaves you drop whatever you're supposed to be working on. Honesty entails doing the right thing whether your boss is around or not. To be honest is also to be fair; fair to your employer, by working when you're supposed to be working, and fair to your fellow employees. A snitch is not an honest person; that person who capitalises on the good relationship he/she has with the boss to castigate other colleagues so he/she would look good while making others look bad and incompetent is not fair to his/her fellow colleagues.
As an employer, to be honest and fair to your employees involves paying them fair wages, and when it is due. Is it not an act of wickedness to pay someone 5,000 naira and expect the person to do the work of 100,000 naira? Unfortunately that is what we see around us today, and how will someone feed and clothe with such an amount and not steal to augment his pay? Sad. Some employers will owe their employees' salary for months, citing paucity of funds as the reason, while they travel for vacations abroad with their families, buy new cars and expensive clothes. People that do this, how do you expect their employees to pay for transportation to work, and feed their families?
No religion or practice anywhere in the whole universe condones dishonesty or cheating. Be honest in your workplace, it's appalling that despite all the preaching at the various religious centres, people still demand for bribes before they could do their job. Important and personal files disappear from offices because you refuse to play ball, which makes me wonder if the people responsible are not religious. There are some virtues that should be instilled in us as human beings, regardless of our religious beliefs or lack of it.
Honesty and fairness should come naturally to us.
Peace...
These ethics, I feel, shouldn't be particularly for the Christians. I am yet to see a religion or even the non-religious that condemn honesty, humility, fairness, etc. In our dealing with fellow human beings, we all yearn for honesty, but how honest are we?
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As an employer, to be honest and fair to your employees involves paying them fair wages, and when it is due. Is it not an act of wickedness to pay someone 5,000 naira and expect the person to do the work of 100,000 naira? Unfortunately that is what we see around us today, and how will someone feed and clothe with such an amount and not steal to augment his pay? Sad. Some employers will owe their employees' salary for months, citing paucity of funds as the reason, while they travel for vacations abroad with their families, buy new cars and expensive clothes. People that do this, how do you expect their employees to pay for transportation to work, and feed their families?
No religion or practice anywhere in the whole universe condones dishonesty or cheating. Be honest in your workplace, it's appalling that despite all the preaching at the various religious centres, people still demand for bribes before they could do their job. Important and personal files disappear from offices because you refuse to play ball, which makes me wonder if the people responsible are not religious. There are some virtues that should be instilled in us as human beings, regardless of our religious beliefs or lack of it.
Honesty and fairness should come naturally to us.
Peace...
Good piece. So on point.
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