Work For The Living
Dealing with a boss is routine for those of us who work.
We leave our homes, usually early in the morning, get ourselves to the worksite where over the course of the day we expend the majority of our energy doing a task for someone else.
Trump has never had a boss other than his dad.
He hasn’t filled out an application for employment or punched a time clock. He does not know what it means to need a job or depend on co-workers.
Those of us who work for a living spend most of our lives working. Accepting the daily grind of being where you’re supposed to be, doing what is expected, thinking about what needs to be done, focusing, attending, concentrating on whatever it is you do to stay alive. I’ve had forty different jobs. I know for a fact that without a job there is no money and money is the only thing that keeps us alive.
We work because we have to, our survival depends on receiving a paycheck. Because it is a life-or-death situation, we accept being told what to do on a daily basis, willingly force our thoughts to bend to the task at hand, and work hard to keep the boss happy.
So it’s understandable that Trump expects the working public, and especially the media, to keep him happy.
But he will continue to be disappointed.
Trump believes he is the boss and we work for him. He assumes the authority and right to dominate, control, and diminish because this is the work-place power arrangement we accept every day where pleasing authority is being a good worker.
People who work for a living understand that being able to cooperate with your coworkers is central to keeping your job. The ability to compromise and cooperate determine how effective a worker is in a team environment. So far, Trump has shown almost zero ability in either of these mandatory criteria for employment.
Trumps fails to understand or does not accept the power arrangement he signed on for when he became President. He still believes he is the boss when he is in fact a public employee and as such can be fired. He works for the government although he seems to believe that he is the government.
It is in our best interest to dissuade him of his ignorance.
If you have a job you understand sacrifice. Staying alive today is a full time job. Our sacrifice is our time, our consciousness, our body, our life. We could be with the ones we love but instead spend the majority our time at work surrounded by other people who would also rather be at home.
We work because people are depending on us to provide shelter, nutrition, safety. So we willingly accept what duty demands and commit our time and energy to securing what others cannot acquire for themselves. It’s called working for a living.
What we sacrifice is our life and we do it for love.
We expect at least as much from the President.
