God's Work

Originally posted by galveston75
Me too. Getting on a Country music kick right now but I'm still picky with that.

Some country is fine.
You know that old joke about playing a country song backwards?

You get your girl back, your money back, your truck back, your job back.....

Hell man you get your whole f******g life back.

Originally posted by johnnylongwoody
The Blues and rock music.

Without one they would never have had the other.

They say it's the Devil's music but I don't know.

I love to sit back and listen to the Doors, Free, Lynard Skynard.
Old stuff too like Robert Johnson....John Lee Hooker.

I love the doors except that jive about cancelling his subscription to the resurrection in
When the musics over, Weird scenes inside the goldmine and La woman are possibly
my favourites, Morrison hotel is pretty good too.

Originally posted by johnnylongwoody
Some country is fine.
You know that old joke about playing a country song backwards?

You get your girl back, your money back, your truck back, your job back.....

Hell man you get your whole f******g life back.

Hummmmm, not a bad thought on some levels.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I love the doors except that jive about cancelling his subscription to the resurrection in
When the musics over, Weird scenes inside the goldmine and La woman are possibly
my favourites, Morrison hotel is pretty good too.

It's O B one Carrobie.

Hello Robbie.

Originally posted by johnnylongwoody
It's O B one Carrobie.

Hello Robbie.

hello long johnny silver 😀

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
hello long johnny silver 😀

In Dublin City Centre we have a Morrison Hotel,
and it's pretty exclusive.

Robbie Williams stayed there when he last performed here.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I heard on the radio of an organisation "doing God's work"
and it ocurred to me what an odd turn of phrase it was.

Now I never mind stepping in and helping out anyone who is
too busy or sick or otherwise incapacitated but I'm damned
if I'm going to do somebody elses work for them.

Especially if they are omnipotent.

Talk about Lazy!

You could think of it in terms of doing the boss's work. In that sense, most of us are doing someone else's work.

Just a comment:

“I have gone through different religions and religious sects,” writes a man from Mexico. “But I have never seen such organization.” The man had just finished reading the brochure Jehovah’s Witnesses Unitedly Doing God’s Will Worldwide. He explained: “What impresses me the most is the seriousness with which you fulfill the commission to preach the good news of the Kingdom from house to house, at work, on the street, in buses. It is marvelous to find people who take the doing of God’s will seriously in this age of so much religious hypocrisy.”

Originally posted by SwissGambit
You could think of it in terms of doing the boss's work. In that sense, most of us are doing someone else's work.

No.
We dont do the boss's work.
The boss does his work (a part of which is delegating work to us) and we do ours.

My questions are;

1. Why should any of us do God's work?
(In fact if you specifically believe in an all pow erful god - just leave
everything to him.

2. What right has a god to expect us to do his work?

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No.
We dont do the boss's work.
The boss does his work (a part of which is delegating work to us) and we do ours.

My questions are;

1. Why should any of us do God's work?
(In fact if you specifically believe in an all pow erful god - just leave
[b]everything to him.

2. What right has a god to expect us to do his work?[/b]

Consider yourself fortunate if you've never had to do the boss's work for him. How did you reach such an idyllic world, and is there a chance that I could work there? 🙂

Even if the boss only delegates, it is still 'his' work in the sense that he is responsible for making sure it gets done. He may administer a project, and if I screw something up, his ass is on the line with his boss.

We do the boss's work for any number of reasons.
1) We need to keep our job.
2) We would like to get a raise if possible.
3) Ideally, we are motivated to achieve our boss's goal. We want our project to succeed.
4) It's hypocritical for us to do nothing while bitching that our boss is lazy for failing to do everything for us.

A boss has a right to expect us to do his work so long as the requests are reasonable. As long as he isn't asking me to do something unethical, or too far outside my job function, etc. I should honor the agreement with my employer and do as he says.

If God existed, I think he could claim some type of parental authority over us, but ideally, we would do his work if we have committed to help him, or find his work worth doing, or some such. It is possible that the reason could be a more mundane, 'might-makes-right' type; I do God's work because I fear his reprisal. Just as in any situation involving authority, I have to weigh the consequences of defying the authority figure against the burden of obeying him.

I disagree fundamentally.
You dont do your boss's job.

Do you have anyone under you?
Do they do your job?
Of course not.

Your job does of course entail following your boss's instructions,
but you do not do his job.

A Project Manager is responsible for a particular project.
He delegates, instructs, orders.
But nobody else is doing "his" job of Project Management.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I disagree fundamentally.
You dont do your boss's job.

Do you have anyone under you?
Do they do your job?
Of course not.

Your job does of course entail following your boss's instructions,
but you do not do his job.

A Project Manager is responsible for a particular project.
He delegates, instructs, orders.
But nobody else is doing "his" job of Project Management.

Your work experience simply differs from mine. It is not a matter of agreement or disagreement. I have done jobs that my boss was supposed to do himself, because he pawned them off on me, while leaving either the customer or his boss, or both, under the impression that he was the one doing, or had done, the work.

At other times, I have jumped at the chance to do other people's work for them, if I find the work interesting.

Sometimes I end up doing other people's work for them because they are doing it wrong or taking too long and you need the work done somehow.

I have also pawned off jobs I didn't want to do on others. And they agreed to do my work for me because I've helped them out in the past, and/or they were bored and didn't have anything better to do.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Your work experience simply differs from mine. It is not a matter of agreement or disagreement. I have done jobs that my boss was supposed to do himself, because he pawned them off on me, while leaving either the customer or his boss, or both, under the impression that he was the one doing, or had done, the work.

At other times, I have jumped a ...[text shortened]... helped them out in the past, and/or they were bored and didn't have anything better to do.

My supervisor's main job seems to be cracking the whip on those actually doing the real work and planting his lips firmly to his boss's posterior.

Originally posted by Suzianne
My supervisor's main job seems to be cracking the whip on those actually doing the real work and planting his lips firmly to his boss's posterior.

That's not a good way to speak about your leader.

I'm sure he's a very nice man, you should have more respect
you being a christian and all that.

Shame on you. you should buy him a gift as repentance.😉

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Your work experience simply differs from mine. It is not a matter of agreement or disagreement. I have done jobs that my boss was supposed to do himself, because he pawned them off on me, while leaving either the customer or his boss, or both, under the impression that he was the one doing, or had done, the work.

At other times, I have jumped a ...[text shortened]... helped them out in the past, and/or they were bored and didn't have anything better to do.

By definition it's not your job to do your boss's job.
And if you did do your boss's job ... who did yours?

And whoever did yours ... who did theirs?

And whoever did theirs ...

you get the picture. 😉