Generally my workplace is pretty good. Over the last few days though I have found myself feeling a little miffed by their policies. Last week they interviewed my sister and she won the competition for the position within my department. But does she get the job? No. Apparently it is a conflict of interest since she is my sister. So why interview her in the first place? They got my hopes up that I would have someone capable and friendly to work with and now I get to be disappointed and wait to see if they choose another clerk as useless as the last for me to train. And now my sister is disappointed. Anyway to borrow a friends new motto, "I'm so not impressed"
I spent some of this weekend thinking about the word redemption and what it means. Not necessarily the religious context of it, but the taking a wrong and making it right idea. I think this stuck with me because I watched a few movies over the weekend in which the themes were about making things right and using your pain to help others. Like everyone I have had some painful things happen to me and have struggled with the anger and despair that often accompanies being hurt. In the book The Shack the author calls his main character's pain (due to the murder of his youngest daughter) "the Great Sadness." This makes sense to me because some of the bad things that can happen in life seem so consuming that they haunt you no matter how hard you try to ignore them. I am often reminded of this fact when something new in my life causes me pain (a conflict. a death, etc). All of a sudden the floodgate of old pain re-opens and I find myself back at the beginning of my pain...
Boo! I didn't hear about any of this. ... I'm sorry for how disappointing that this was. You're right though, why have the interview in the first place then?
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