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A lot of instances in my life
that I experienced misunderstandings with people at school or work. I will list
down some thoughts that helped me a lot to “resist a Horrible Boss”. This post
is leaning over to what I believe in as a Christian so hopefully you guys are
the same as me. (As we all know religion is pretty much hard to agree upon but I am giving
it a shot and hopefully it will help you in one way or another. This is why the
blog is for anyways. J)
Because of individuality
(different culture, upbringing, environment, beliefs and much much more) we all
agree that sometimes we disagree to a certain act, views or behaviour.
(“We agree to
disagree” – WOW! So this is where this famous quote becomes handy.) Maybe
they are spreading false rumor about you, speaking behind your back or told you
names, or they are yelling at you; basically they are bullying or harassing
you. This qualifies to what a horrible person I am talking about. (Also let us admit it, that some work environment are like that and it is labelled as 'normal'.)
Now, we all agree that those
words they say about you are not true and you don’t deserve to be treated that
way. (Yes,
yes, I’ve been there, think about it all the time and it creeps me out of my
system.) At some point it affects you so much that you are not
functioning well at your work and it is so hard to wake up in the morning,
thinking you will be in that place again for 8 hours when you really don’t want
to be in there.
So here it is. I listed down
words from the Bible that helped me a lot to overcome “Horrible Bosses” and let
me move on happily, and focus solely to the goal that matters for me.
Mathew 6:9-13 The Lords Prayer
I am the type of person when I
am in a horrible situation and I don’t know what to do, I pray the Lords Prayer
for several times (Oh well, not several but a lot of times I am talking about
30 to 50 times more or less). Until I calm down.
Romans 12:19 “…Leave room for God’s Wrath…”
Normal thing to do as a human is
to retaliate. (“an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.”) However, I don’t find
it useful because I easily cry on confrontations. So, what I do is, go to the
proper 'authorities', for example if your are at school, go to guidance counsellor,
or if your are at work if they don’t allow bullying or harassment, go to the HR
and file an Incident report (I know not all companies are like that, thanks God mine is
ok with reporting these kind of incident. If your place doesn’t have like these
maybe you can speak to a higher ups that you can trust and speak about it and
please do tell that you are telling it only because you wanted it to stop, for
whatever reason may it be, even if you deserve it or not it has to stop.)
At some instances, I wanted to
do more about it like wanting them to get fired, but that is way beyond reality
so, I always think that I have to let it go. I have done my part (which is to report it
and it stopped already) and now one thing left is to move on. If you
still think it is unfair because they didn’t get a proper punishment for what
they did, I always remember this line in my head, “leave room for God’s wrath…”
and for me it is totally true. Also, remember John 8:1-11 when they are
demanding Jesus that the woman who was caught for adultery be stoned to death? Then
He said ….”all right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first
stone!”. So, should I say more??? Praise God, he already taught us how to live.
J
Hope this post helps. Please
comment down below on your favourite bible verse that helps you a lot with
work. Will be so happy to hear from you.