Moving On

Lately it seems as if the world has gone to hell. You look around at the newspapers, you take the time to turn on the TV, sit in traffic, or listen to the conversations around you and what you experience is pain, hurt, disgust, anger, and disloyalty. I think today I will choose to discuss the topic of disloyalty. William Shakespeare once said “There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.” I experinced such words this week with a client of mine and was ask to not take it personally. And those I repeat back to them as they read these next few lines.

Over the past 18 months I have poored my heart and soul into supporting a large medical practice with their technology needs. I had worked long nights, days, weekends, and even changed family plans to meet the needs of this group. in the end I found that people whom I had come to know as my friends were actually corporate managers of filth that actually see others as numbers. They had lost the intimacy of working together for a common goal and had subjected themselves to the bottom line... money. People cutting salaries of others to meet "budget requests" only to enable themselves to be provided raises at the end of the day. Physicians tightening the budgets of department managers to only give themselves a rather large percentage increase on a 6 figure salary. Is this the only place in the world this is going on today? No. I am sure each of you could send me a story of such equivocal value based on your own experiences in the past few months.

At the end of the day my "friends" ask that I go without the time to say good bye to any of the staff I had come to know and support. Many of them have shared times of distress, new additions to their own families, time of happiness, time of sadness. Genuine people that deserved a common heart felt goodbye. I think it was the shame of those that directed the meeting to advise me of my last day that knew they had made a mistake but it was too late. As I walked out the door I held my head high and knew that they will never find a better connection than what they found in me.

So as I move on I will take this experience to remember that what you put into something you may not always get back what you expect. And I will leave you with this:

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”