Nailed it Down!

Though it's the second day, I probably should have started this blog with the hiring process.

I've been having these nightmares about going back to an old boss and asking for a job. It had gotten to the point that I was having these dreams a couple of times a week. Yea, I know that I've been experiencing some financial difficulty but have always been able to eventually weather the storms. Now I was facing some major losses with no where to turn. So as I headed down the freeway, I remembered the phone number to an old boss that I had worked for. During the Mortgage Real Estate Hayride, I often referred to him amongst clients and fellow employees as a friend. So I called him hp and asked if he had any positions open for a friend/ex-employee. He replied, "come right in."

So I went in and was offered a very meager starting wage. Being an ex-employee, I understood his reasoning. His hiring motivation is a search for long-term working relations and not for individuals who are looking for a fast buck. So I took the meager offer that most would have considered an insult. The main reason for accepting the offer was in obedience to the dream I had the night before. In the dream I worked for him in a capacity where 1. I didn't fit in. and 2. I was considered a trusted advisor. I notice a definite sub-culture. He's seems to be in the starting stages of a type of Howard Hughes syndrome.

Employees take a negative outlook towards the customer's ability to purchase goods and services. I have always believed that customers should be given the opportunity to buy. Several niche' areas have developed in the organization managed by individuals with territorial, yet obvious self-seeking personalities. Body language skills are in many cases offensive. Assumptive reasoning abilities are also lacking. Case in point, while talking to a male customer who had come to the store with his attractive female acquaintance, the staff member without any prior common ground, commented on the tattoo located on her back. This could be considered quite offensive to most cultures. A safer conversation could have be started by noticing that her foot was in a brace from a recent injury.

So now we come to the end of the second day. I've sold quite a bit of inventory. I've disagreed on several occasions with regular staff. It's quite obvious that the regular staff and I will probably not be close. It's also apparent that no one in the current employ is willing to tell the emperor the real truth. Fortunately I'm confident that my industry, which is the backbone of American economy will bounce back given enough time. And I'll not experience the backlash of exploding at one of his erroneously negative thinking, small sales minded, curmudgeon, eristical masters in dontopedalogy staff members. Hopefully, I can become a valuable enough asset whereby I can inform the emperor of his organization's growing corrosive sub-culture. But for now it's sort of fun to be back working for an old friend.

While standing next to my old boss, He stated that he was really glad that I come back to the company. My reply was, "I'm having so much fun that I would have done this for free." God showed me that he needed to hear that.

This is truly becoming a lesson in humility and obedience.