Saturday, June 25, 2011

Day 176: Rules

I am a very honest person. This quality has always been a prominent part of my personality. With it comes a strong sense of following what rings true to me. So my own set of truths beget their own rules. Sometimes other rules, rules made by people at a generality, well they don't apply very well to me. That is, they don't mesh well with my own rules.

That's when you have me reading in outside garden when it is slow. In my mind I know I do my job, greet everyone and help them just as well as I would if I wasn't reading during the lulls of the day. But the creator/s of the rules don't know that and the enforcer/s of the rules don't care to qualify. They know me well enough to know what I say is true, that I am a good worker, but they believe in the rules as they are set by people who are good at labeling and grouping data.

Like with me watching television while Bookkeeping. There is no harm in it. Really there is no difference between listening to the audio of a show versus listening to the audio of the store system. One is music and other a variety of sound, but that doesn't hinder my capability of doing the job. I know this so I am fine doing it. I also don't have a problem telling some people that I do this because I assume they understand how to qualify rules based on the individual. And I am not afraid of worse care scenarios. However, when I had the full-time Bookkeeper tell me that the girl she is training told her I watch television back there in an effort to...I don't know, prove she can do things how she wants? I don't know why she told her but I immediately got that uneasy feeling.

I don't think the full-timer would do anything, she understands that I don't have to be fast at the job like she is because I can only do so much for them as the back-up Bookkeeper. The uneasy feeling was about the person I trusted who apparently has no concept of discretion and the ever important capability to reason how some times, different rules apply to different people.

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