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Dear Glenn,
We have an employee who is paranoid about
everything. He spends a great amount of time
investigating "reward programs" to see if people
are cheating and frequently calls them out on the
situation.
His mentality seems to be to watch for people to make
mistakes or try to cheat the system, and then jump them
over it.
How can we get him to understand he needs to pick his
battles and how can we get him past this paranoia?
Lynn in Illinois
Dear Lynn,
Fortunately, curing people of paranoia is something
that's not in a manager's job description.
But setting boundaries is, and that's what needs to
happen here.
Explain to Mr. Paranoia that making sure other employees
are doing what they're supposed to do is your job, not
his.
If he has so much time to investigate what
everyone else is doing, he obviously doesn't have enough
to do himself, then give him more to do. Busy people don't have
time to worry about what others are doing.
Thanks for your question.
Glenn in Nashville, TN
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People can get away with just
about anything these days.
Presidents can cheat on their
wives and get re-elected.
Tax cheats can become Secretary of
the Treasury.
Child molesters can remain in the
priesthood.
Former football stars can murder
their wives.
But God forbid that you hurt
anybody’s feeeeeeeeeeelings, because society has elevated
feelings above actions and common sense.
Nicole Mamo of Devonwood
Recruitment was told she could not say “reliable and
hard working” in her help wanted ad, because it could be
offensive to unreliable people.
When I was a kid, we were taught
that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never
hurt me”. We wanted to be tough.
Today, it seems like more and more
people want to be victims. I honestly believe some people go
through life just looking for something to be offended over.
Anytime they don’t like something
someone says, they claim to be "offended", which always makes
other people responsible for their feelings.
Or worse yet, they claim to be a victim of
"verbal abuse”, and the
“abuser” must be sent to sensitivity training.
My father abused my mother. Once
when I was about 13, he grabbed her by the throat and
slammed her head into the fusebox. When I later asked why she
never stood up to him, she responded, "Do you want to watch him try
and break my jaw again?"
On another occasion, I remember
him holding a gun and threatening to kill all three of us in order to scare her into submission. I guess I was
scared too, but what I remember most was how it suddenly dawned
on me that he was as weak as she was.
It was at that moment that I
first realized I
could choose to be a helpless victim all my life, or I could
choose to be a victor and take something good
from a bad situation.
I opted for the latter, knowing
that one choice would change my life forever. What I never imagined was how that choice would lead me
to change the lives of thousands of other people all over the
world.
But sometimes I can't help but thinking back to the
haunting sound of that gray metal fusebox door clanking when I hear
people throw the term “abuse” around so cavalierly these days.
It was best summed it up on a
t-shirt I saw in Las Vegas, that read:
Did I offend you? Let me call you a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Society is becoming an
ever-increasing bunch of sissies. As my colleague Larry Winget
wrote in his best selling book Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get
a Life, “People are becoming more and more tolerant of
whiners. It is so commonplace we hardly notice it any more.”
As a speaker and author who’s
published in 24 countries, I’m constantly reminded of the
absurdity of this. Here’s an excerpt from one of the comments we
received on the story about Drew Brees and the New Orleans
Saints last week:
“Glenn…the
overwhelming positivity that was exuded in your article was
diminished somewhat by a title of “Work is not for …..” It
included a word that was clearly not honoring diversity, but
instead employed a derogatory word, “S…..s” . I think you could
have used a more sensitive word, like “slackards”. For that
reason, I am not repeating the word you chose, just pointing out
its derogatory connotation.”
It doesn’t surprise me that
someone might not like the word “sissy”, but the fact that
someone finds it so “offensive” that they can’t even say it is
hilarious.
Because toughness is a value that a lot of
people aren’t taught these days, you may have
to teach it to some of your employees, especially younger ones
who grew up with Helicopter Parents that sheltered them from
everything.
This is why my first rule of work is
“Work’s TOUGH. That’s why you get paid to do it”.
Dedicated To Your Success,
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