Pity Party - ST

Posted: Oct 24, 2014

I stay away from this web site usually.  It's a serious downer.  Everyone having a pity party...or stirring the pot...or spreading rumors (which aren't true).  Y'all sit at your desks (probably during work hours) and complain about how you can't make a decent living, you chalk up a 110 lb weight loss to not enough money for food, you complain that you can't pay your mortgage so you'll just stop paying it and then burn down your house.  You complain about changes which are completely out of your control.  And that's what your life (it would seem) is.  Complaining, being grouchy, spreading lies, trying to get others in your same frame of mind. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE!!  Having trouble being productive...WORK, yes, actually work! during your work hours.  Stay off this site, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.  Set a goal and meet it...every day.  Think it can't be done?  Ha!  I'm a single mom of 3 sons.  Making it on my own completely.  Bringing home $1200-1400 a paycheck.  How do I do it?  I SUCK IT UP!!  I work during my work hours.  I set a goal of 300+ lines per hour and I meet that goal.  Yes, it's harder to do with all the new accounts I'm getting this week but I've already seen an increase in what I was able to do on Tuesday and what I'm able to do today...and I'm meeting my 300 lph goal today. You can't control what corporate decides to do.  You can't control who your manager is or what accounts you have.  But you can control how you respond to those things.  New accounts?  Be pissed...and then decide it's an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to maybe see some great reports with doctors who don't speak half East Indian/half English all the time.  You can't control who your manager is either.  Who cares about the managers??  You rarely (if ever) need to talk to them directly.  When you do, be kind, be thoughtful and don't take out corporate's decisions on them.  I can guarantee that it'll be those not meeting production and standards and who make their manager's lives hell who get laid off way before those of us flying under the radar, clocking in on time, taking breaks as scheduled, clocking out on time, working OT if we get offered it and can work it, and meeting our production and standards.  Even a Wal-Mart employee needs to do these things.  What makes you so special that you think because you work from home you can behave like 16-year-old kids on their first job, slamming the boss and the employees and the customers and thinking you'll still get a paycheck and a raise?  This is one of the only fields where you can give yourself a raise...so work you butt off on your 8-hour shift and see that you really can exceed your minimum requirements.  If you are honestly unable to meet the basic requirements for this job, you really should be doing something to get out of the field.  And to all of you "I used to work for MM" people out there...why the heck are you over here stirring the pot??  I do wonder if y'all are happier being unhappy than you would ever be if you were happy.  Make the choice TODAY to change what you didn't like about YESTERDAY.  It takes 30 days to make a change and have that be your new habit.  Don't let MM control you or your way of life.