I figured something was wrong, but not the details. We all do things on a whim, but we learn from our mistakes…. I have a similar story when I was 19 and the person that helped me was here from Haiti! There are considerate people from all countries here in America….
Thank you for sharing your experience. Despite the deceit of your “friend”, and the terrible situation it placed you in, you instead chose to continue to trust, and step up in a difficult situation, and focus on the kindness and blessings you were given. This is the way. ❤️
Yes, these managers were good to you. But you were also good to them.
I am retired now, but used to be an employer. There is a myth that employers control everything and can treat employees however they wish. Far from it. Finding good employees was always the most difficult pat of my job. Paying more does not necessarily get you better employees. You can't pay a person to have character. You have to find people with character, and then treat well and pay them well in order to keep them.
People doing God's will is what that beautiful story says to my heart. Thank you. Bless you for your leadership and bringing us back to what America really is and needs to continue to be.
Thanks for writing this. It brought back lots of memories and emotions I went through after barely passing high school. I was the one of 8 kids that wasn’t interested in college. I can still see my father’s face when he said “Tomorrow show me your enlistment papers or tell me where you’ll be working.”
It wasn’t tough love. There was never love in our relationship.
Friends and their parents took me in.
Funny I just responded to another post about selfishness not always being a bad thing. I was thinking how sometimes being kind or considerate of others can be a selfish act we commit in the belief that by sewing love we will be loved. I imagine that kindness isn’t so much an American thing as it is a heartfelt thing. ‘Asking nothing in return’ doesn’t necessarily mean that we aren’t seeking a return of consideration.
I imagine that kindness isn’t so much an American thing as it is a heartfelt thing.
I figured something was wrong, but not the details. We all do things on a whim, but we learn from our mistakes…. I have a similar story when I was 19 and the person that helped me was here from Haiti! There are considerate people from all countries here in America….
Thank you for sharing your experience. Despite the deceit of your “friend”, and the terrible situation it placed you in, you instead chose to continue to trust, and step up in a difficult situation, and focus on the kindness and blessings you were given. This is the way. ❤️
Thank you for reading it.
I have no regrets. Lots of lessons learned.
Yes, these managers were good to you. But you were also good to them.
I am retired now, but used to be an employer. There is a myth that employers control everything and can treat employees however they wish. Far from it. Finding good employees was always the most difficult pat of my job. Paying more does not necessarily get you better employees. You can't pay a person to have character. You have to find people with character, and then treat well and pay them well in order to keep them.
People doing God's will is what that beautiful story says to my heart. Thank you. Bless you for your leadership and bringing us back to what America really is and needs to continue to be.
I went through a similar trauma in Quebec, Canada, in the 1970s.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/anthropological-reversibility
Thanks for writing this. It brought back lots of memories and emotions I went through after barely passing high school. I was the one of 8 kids that wasn’t interested in college. I can still see my father’s face when he said “Tomorrow show me your enlistment papers or tell me where you’ll be working.”
It wasn’t tough love. There was never love in our relationship.
Friends and their parents took me in.
Funny I just responded to another post about selfishness not always being a bad thing. I was thinking how sometimes being kind or considerate of others can be a selfish act we commit in the belief that by sewing love we will be loved. I imagine that kindness isn’t so much an American thing as it is a heartfelt thing. ‘Asking nothing in return’ doesn’t necessarily mean that we aren’t seeking a return of consideration.
I imagine that kindness isn’t so much an American thing as it is a heartfelt thing.