Pooped

I am exhausted.  I got about 3 hours of sleep last night. I wish I could blame my lack of sleep on performing a noble deed, but in reality it is a result of what I call suffocation from procrastination.  In other words, I did homework late into the night last night because I chose to spend my time doing other things earlier this weekend.  Fortunately, I can say that I didn’t waste time this weekend; I was simply taking care of other worth wile things that needed to get done.  

This morning I woke up early to go into work.  This is the big struggle in my life right now.  I would prefer not to not work on Sundays, but with my job it is required that I work some Sundays. The nice thing about Home Depot is that they are kind enough to work with my schedule and allow me to simply pull a three to four hour shift in the morning and then go to church in the afternoon. 

The struggle occurs because I have been taught all my life to not work on Sundays.  I remember being in Sunday school classes my whole life and answering the moral dilemma of working on Sundays with a firm, “I will not work on Sundays.  I will have enough faith that God will provide other ways for me to make money.”  Also, I remember when I first got my job with The Home Depot I felt at peace with the fact that I was going to have to work on Sundays occasionally.
 

Recently I have been wondering if it is time for me to personally progress in life and find a different job that does not require that I work on Sundays or if God understands my situation and does not require that I find a new job at this point in my life.  Obviously, long-term Heavenly Father wants me to find a job that does not require I work on Sundays, but know He understands every situation and makes exceptions accordingly. What I need to do is find out wither my feelings for a change are coming from Heavenly Father, or if they are from Satan trying to get me to feel miserable.  

Well that’s enough of my personal struggle for the day.  The next topic that I want to talk about is dishonesty.  For a business research paper I am doing in my management communication class, I am researching theft in the work place.  Using data from a couple different sources I have found that about $219 billion are stolen every year from employees within a company.  This number includes time theft (wasted time by employees that they receive compensation for) and fraud from within a company.  

According to my research gathered from other sources about $177 billion are stolen from employees that simply waste time, and the other $42 billion resulting from fraud existing within the businesses.  These numbers initially shocked me, but after a little consideration they make more since. What I find so appalling is the fact that money stolen by employees who are simply wasting time is more than 4 times greater than the amount stolen by thieves. This illustrates the true fact that diligence in the work place is a rare attribute found in employees.  It is sad that so much money is wasted, and almost looked upon as acceptable, every year by people who are simply lazy or lack the discipline to work diligently.  

It is now time for bed.  Goodnight world.  I am going to dream of a more honest place and then awake to do my part to fix the dishonesty problem found here in reality.  Until then, behave yourself!