As I was growing up as a kid in Africa, Ghana to be precise,
I was taught to work very hard to achieve any goal I set in life.
I was also told to be honest and truthful in all my ways.
I stood by this principle and never took a
short cut, that is to cheat or be dishonest to achieve and this
has brought
me this
far.
Merit to my understanding is to work very hard and to be honest
to achieve.
Convenience and comfortability is more of Eye and Lip service
to achieve.
I always thought America being the land of opportunities,
merit will be encouraged rather than convenience and comfortability
but it turn out to be the opposite.
Race is not too much of a factor here. You can be black,
white, Asian what have you, if you don't tow that line
you are doomed.
Like wise you can have all the diplomas and degrees and
they will find a way to work against you.
I have had many problems or been in unfavorable situations
at most work places because my superiors have seen me
to be straight
and never ready to pay eye or lip service to them and
it has always been uncomfortable to work with me. So what
they turn
to do is find faults with anything I do or make me also
do the toughest of works. Trust me, I always exemplified
myself.
I worked in a distribution center and for two years I
never had a raise not to talk about promotion. I wondered
why
my junior
co-workers were all getting raises and I was still
stack at the bottom. I later found out that those who were
getting the
raise
were all friends to the supervisor. I quit the company.
My second job was worse. The job it self was not bad
but the supervisor was a pain and a jerk. He will
tell you
in the face
why you have to be on his side and the difficult
side is his boss was a bigger jerk.
I asked myself, how can we encourage people to pursue
higher height through education when we put up
these attitudes
at our work places I strongly believe people who
are insecure and shady
are those who think convenience and comfortability
is the best practices at the work place.
Well, I think merit makes me strong and dignified
regardless of what I go through.
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