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Have you been frustrated by the policies, practices, procedures or people in your company. Have you ever had to say "Good Grief" or some other expletive during a tense moment? You're not alone... You can use your frustration as a weapon, or use it as a tool to improve your job and your company. If you're the CEO or owner of a Company then what you say and do has real impact and you're responsible for all the good and bad. If you're not the CEO or owner then you can't quickly change the way things are but you can use the system you work in to steadily make changes... During a frustrating moment at work that makes you want to interject a suitable expletive that can simply be translated to "*Good Grief*!" - instead of letting the moment get to you, use it to give back some good grief. That is, a modicum of good grief from you can lead to change and reinforcement. The up-side from your reaction is the realization for others that doing things right the first time is less expensive and doing things differently can reduce expenses. Your system of work is not that much different from other systems. There are inputs and outputs and streams of work product that flow into other streams. These processes and products are checked and sometimes re-checked to provide management and Customers with assurance that operations and products are as-designed. You're ability to give good grief resides within one of those checks and balances. Your system of work has a reporting structure that enables you to fix problems that occur in the process or product. Use the "report" as often as is physically possible to make the problem visible. You are constantly "in discovery" with your work product, which means you are continuously improving or preventing problems. Sometimes you fix things without thinking and that's Ok as long as you are doing the job. If you get promoted or go-away then the next person must duplicate your work. If they don't, the system you've fixed reverts to some previous state that requires a new discovery of an old problem. That's why it's so important to give back good grief. Your good grief actually documents your discoveries so they can be used to change the process or product to keep the work system on track. Of course, a decision by management to continue to live with a problem is possible and desirable for many reasons that you can't know because you touch only a small piece of the total operation. Therein lies another salvation for you. If you assiduously report what you know and management decides to continue to work then you've done your job. Your ethics are intact and so is management's because tough decisions sometimes go with the work. The documentation and visibility of the decision is the true measure of it's ethical status. In any work system, the definition of ethical behavior is the ability to question a decision, understand it's reason and live with the consequence. If there is no ethical process to make decisions then you shouldn't be involved in that work system. If the system can't be examined under a microscope then it will eventually go-away and you will be out of work. Unethical business behavior has its own reward, which usually means you get back what you put out.
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