I talk to so many people who get burned by christian organizations and get burned out because they feel or are made to believe that they are expected to work overtime for no pay because you are working for a non-profit "ministry". Is there a reason that so many people struggle more with their beliefs when they are at christian organizations. Just because someone working for a place like Glen Eyrie believes in their mission and loves it does not mean that the salaried people can take advantage of that and ask people to do things that would be illegal in any other place.
You would expect a christian ministry to be a model of workplace satisfaction. You would expect that the employees would be able to say that they can see in the dimeanor of their bosses and higher ups that they are cared for and valued.
Conversely, these same employees should be willing to listen to constructive criticism from their supervisors and employees and if a worker is not the right fit they should be asked to leave. Grace only goes so far before it hurts the person it is being given to. So when does this grace go to far... When a boss cannot communicate with his employees... when a boss cannot communicate his expectations without being harsh and grating... when a employee ignores the requests of his boss due to the harshness of his bosses requests???
Everything I am talking about relates directly to me. Ever since I have been at Glen Eyrie I have seen countless employees dismisses or just leave because they are so fed up with it all. I do not know many employees who have left since I have been here that would ever recomend that someone else they know and like work at Glen Eyrie. Some of the higher ups have left and come back. They tend to be the ones who lack in people skills when it comes to disipline. I have seen more ministry going on in the secular work place then I ever do at the Glen. One of our supervisors does not even make any pretence of trying to have any caring about his employees spiritual lives and has to be forced to have bible studies with his employees and will not initate it unless he is forced to.
Sure Glen Eyrie is a business but they always say that they are ministry based. So were is the ministry to employees or vice versa. I have great repore with my fellow employees at the Glen but the managers seem to make rash decisions with out any thought to the employees or example they are setting.
I see the examples the guys above me set and I think, how are these guys representing christ to their employees. I have struggled with not believing in Christ and his influence on Christians ever since I've seen the way that people seem to get trampled over without any regard for their spiritual lives. They think of ministry to the guests, which is great but not ministry to the employees. Do they not see that if the employees are being ministered to that they will be more effective and have a greater drive to be a blessing to the guests.
Right now my reason for staying at the Glen is to be a blessing to the volunteer gardeners and NCP. I do not care if the If facilities succeeds because in terms of my department my moral is super low. my boss has no clue how to motivate people only how to make them resent him. When I first came to facilities I would study for bible studies ahead of time but once I realized that marv could really care less about it I decided that it was not worth it to spend any time on it which was not right but I still did it.
It is kind've like the reality that about half the people who have fish on their cars tend to be horrbile drivers. IF YOU CAN'T DRIVE DON'T PUT A FREAKIN FISH ON YOUR CAR!!!!! It is the same way at the Glen. My expectations are higher because it is a christian organization. Yet they try to skirt the rules, and derek wonders why I try to skirt the rules when I do things around the Glen. He does it to just in different ways.
This is a very negative post but It was something I really needed to get off my chest.
