Converting Health For Money. Is It Worth It?
Someone in the family inspired me to write this post.
Not that that someone asked me to write, but what had happened to the family member caused me thinking.
She has been working for approximately 17 hours a day…. for about 2 weeks continuously.
She is so tired that she met 2 cab drivers that tried to do something funny.
One hid her NETS Card (a payment card but not a credit card) and insisted that he had returned it. Despite her tiredness, she insisted to search for it. It was finally found slotted on the coin placer that’s located in the middle of the cab.
Another cab driver returned the change for the cab fare less by $5. Luckily that she was still able to tell that something is wrong by looking at the change. Thought for a bit and told the driver the amount was wrong. She got back the $5.
Subsequently, she told me about the nasty emails that her boss was not pleased with her on failure to perform certain simple tasks e.g. swiping the time card… She was on the verge of breaking down.
From the looks, she was definitely tired out from work. One couldn’t help but show concern and ask her not to work so hard. She was practically working her life away….. Her hand was trembling by itself badly last week. And she was suffering from dizziness.
How many of us have heard such cases from our friends and relatives? I bet this is rather common.
Subsequently, when she told me that her colleagues had text messaged her that the office is like “dead fish” without her around, and that how her boss had to close the door when it gets too rowdy. And on several occasions at late midnight, the whole gang of them went out for supper. Maybe that explains why her boss was not happy and sent out nasty email that they have to remember to swipe the time card.
She may have been too “comfortable” at work and incurs the wrath of her boss.
But its a fact that she’s working very hard too. We know that she’s not an irresponsible person.
We presuaded her to quit her work if this goes on, as its not good to always to work late to rush to meet the project timeline. But she told us she really liked this job.
If so, there’s really nothing else we can do, except to remind her she got to take care of her health.
Personally, I would rather work for myself, my family, than for someone else who in the end, might not appreciate what I have done. If I ever work to death, my boss will only send me a condolence wreath to my funeral. If I ever work to death, I would rather die for myself, and my family.
Then again, who in the right mind will want work to death? Definitely not me.
