Problem Thinking

One of the problems I saw when I first started working for a living was the way greedy mismanagement of products.

I worked for a retail clothing store, it was a brand new store in a brand new mall.  The first inventory the store had the numbers were not tallying correctly, so merchandise was sent to the trash.

We’re talking, you could almost buy a single family home for the amount of merchandise that was thrown in the trash.

Why not donate it?  Take the tags out and donate it?

Because that would take too long?!

I’m not entirely sure.  However, it is a recurring theme I’ve seen in the workplace.

There is a great lack for thinking beyond the present, planning for the future, for future generations, for thinking of the what if’s as actual possibilities.

Just because something has worked in the past doesn’t mean it can or will continue to work the same in the future.

And, what about other alternative or possible solutions to a problem.

In conjunction, very few companies or jobs I’ve work for have dealt well or even had a system in place for internal marketing as a way of retaining their current employees.

The cost of having to train and hire more employees has to be more expensive than keeping an employee.

Sorry, I feel my vocabulary has gotten weak and sloppy.  I’ve spent too long away from the person I wish and want to be rather than simply doing what I’m told.  Believing that if I just do what is being asked of me, then all of this will go away and I can go back to being me.

I think back to just a couple of years ago, I am no longer that person anymore who used to be able to be fun and have fun, etc.  Who used to have lightness in her heart.

I wear this yoke of burden.  It weighs on me until I can’t breathe anymore.  This 360 degree burden, but it’s also more than 360 degrees.  It is a burden of not being free to my life, of not being free to live.