NOW, WHERE IS THEIR HONOUR?

Its good to be back again; I haven't posted anything here in a long while. One I have been very busy. Plus I really didn't feel like writing anything...call it a mini writer's block. And there's no point simply posting for posting sake.

Today I want to write on the need to appreciate people, and live as honourable people. As I always do, I was musing on the amazing human nature when it occured to me again and again that most people don't appreciate the good you have been in and contributed to their lives when/if (1), things go wrong, or (2), you are no longer useful to them, and they decide to move on.

I remember a couple of years back, some of my colleagues resigned from the organisation to set up own business. Nothing wrong or unusal with this, or so we thought. Until we began to read press reports attributed especially to one of them speaking recklessly about us. We were very surprised because we didn't see the reason for this. I wasnt sore that they left; we even gave them a befitting send off reception. The bad mouthing eventually fizzled out, I suppose because they found out you couldn't run a new business by bad mouthing competition, and your mentors. It will be inelegant to talk about who this fellow was when he joined us and how the system trained and exposed him, until he felt he was now a "big boy", totally forgetting how it was in the beginning.

A story was told me a long time ago about a very senior guy who resigned from an organisation. I was informed that even before he left, he had the distasteful habit of knocking his boss the CEO, and even told some people he was responsible for most of the successes of the well known organisation. No sooner did he leave, than he sadly, began to say negative things especially about the CEO, a guy who mentored him for many years, and pushed his career. From what I was told, this chap was a major beneficiary within the organisation, and rose high and quickly too. I hear he set up business to pitch his former employers and even went back to frolic with one of their major clients. Now how would you describe this, if indeed its true?

A story was also told me by a close friend about a dearly beloved staff who chose to pitch tent with a client who was giving their organisation a hard time on issues of unethical business conduct. My friend feels while everyone has a right to take decisions which will suit them, he thought it was dishonourable that one of his closest staff would pitch tent with a company giving them a very hard time and doing things which could cripple their business because they refused to "play ball". When I heard his story, my take was that while they had serious issues with this client on matters of integrity, this staff shouldn't have been seen lurking around this difficult client's corridors, copies of CVs in tow, and possibly supporting this unfortunate conduct with a thousand reasons why her former establishment was no longer good enough.

As I continue to muse over human conduct, I cannot help concluding that at the end of the day everything still comes down to the issue of honour, and while the world is full of honourable people, we will inevitably have to work, play, worship, laugh, eat, drink etc, with a few others with little or no honour, who because they wont stand up for anything (honourable), will fall for everything (dishobourable).