Sadly, there are still too many organizations where some or all of these are true:
The Good Employee
If you are into playing, laughing and having fun at work, you are not serious enough.
If you care about people's feeling and emotions, you are too touchy-feely.
If you like to talk about what is real underneath the facade, you are too deep.
If you like to be silly and joke around, you are too superficial.
If you want to move your body, dance, or run around, you are too immature and childish.
If you want to be reflective and meditative, you are too woo-woo.
If you want to explore ideas and concepts in ways that are non-conventional,
you are weird.
If you want to use the arts to solve real problems, you are frivolously wasting time.
If you want to be more than just your job description, you are unrealistic.
If you want to dress in ways that are comfortable and expressive, you are not professional.
If you want to decide what success means for you based on our own values and standards, you are a trouble maker.
If you do not do as you are told, you are too rebellious.
If you have too many ideas that are still unpolished, you are not competent enough.
If you don't know the right answers, you are not credible enough.
If you make a mistake or fail, you are a loser.
If you explore and diverge, you are not staying "on task."
If you take things personally, you need to keep it out of the workplace.
If you question authority, you are not going to go far in this company.
If you want to feel more meaning, purpose, and personal connection to your work, you just need to start your own business.
If let your mind wander, imagine, and be curious when you should be doing what is on your desk, you are fired.
If you do not do any of these things, do not rock the boat, and neatly follow the rules and the paths that others have laid out for you without question, don't think up or try anything too out there, welcome aboard…you make a model employee, citizen, and person.
© Michelle James 2017
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