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RE: Saying something: Part Sixteen - Ownership

in Reflections29 days ago

My personal responsibility, both at work and in my private life, is at a high level, so high that even my superiors praise this quality of mine.
It's just a shame when such praise is not accompanied by an adequate reward 🙂
But what can I do, I can't change.
so brought up and such an attitude.
When I screw something up (although it rarely happens, just for reasons of responsibility, because I approach solving tasks in detail, precisely and professionally, as they say, responsibly), I accept the blame and try to learn something from that mistake.

There was one situation when I was doing a test and thus permanently damaged a piece of electronic equipment. The owner of the company where I work, knowing me and my qualities, accepted my apology and offer to pay the expenses, with the comment: "If it is for the benefit of testing and learning, the company will pay, how else are you going to test, discover something new and move forward".

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The owner of the company where I work, knowing me and my qualities, accepted my apology and offer to pay the expenses, with the comment: "If it is for the benefit of testing and learning, the company will pay, how else are you going to test, discover something new and move forward".

I do that a lot in my company, but only the first time. Honest mistakes happen, I make sure that they learn out of it. But negligence is a different kind of animal, that's something I don't tolerate and make them take full responsibility for it. The balance has created a very good work environment, and though they still leave me flabbergasted from time to time, the progress my co-workers made is undeniable. And that's a great feeling, that me, helping them taking responsibility, also help them improve personally. It feels like I have more than just an economic impact.

But negligence is a different kind of animal

The negligence of the people around me completely derails me.

It's astonishing. But it makes sense, considering that most people are increasingly focused on only themselves, becoming unaware of possible consequences of their actions. I mean, that could be one of many explanations. Or just me trying to see the human being, and not the personification of idiocy inhabiting a human body.