Work Ethic ?

Rant by Doug....

Tonight I bought food from the neighborhood McDonald's. For the tenth time since we moved here, they got our order wrong. I am beginning to wonder what happened to our work ethic; does it exist anymore? I mean, how hard is it to put the correct food with the correct order? I think that even my 11 year old stepson could do it correctly and he has never held a job before.

When I grew up, you learned to do a job after you learned it, then you did it to the best of your ability. You didn't cut corners that would degrade the quality of the job you did or the quality of the product you gave to your customers. I have the feeling that many people don't care or try to get away with doing the least amount of work possible, which makes me very nervous about our countries future.

I hear stories of schools and teachers where all they teach is just enough to pass the tests to get more funding or to meet the requirements for "No child left behind", the supposed standard that the President started. That standard doesn't seem to mean much now as we have a president who has reports rewritten by people to fit his view of the world, and doesn't seem to be very interested in getting his job done to the best of his ability. Except now when he and his party are in danger of becoming a minority party.

I remember when Lee Iacoca ran Chrysler and his motto of "Quality is Job One"? I agree with his motto and his philosophy on work that is that you do the job to the highest quality that you can... be it washing dishes all the way up to the President of the United States or of a major company.

So now I go back to my original question "Where and what is our work ethic?" Is it to do the least possible just to get by or do we do the best job that we can do and make sure that our standards are as high as we boast that they are?

Doug