This post reminds me so much of the situation with my late boss. In January, 2014, he informed me that he had 30 days to live. It would turn out that he lived for another five months, consumed with an unyielding lust for money.
As we sat in the office that day, we ended up talking for hours about his soul, and the afterlife. Always a greedy man, he worshiped the dollar bill he wouldn't be able to take with him.
Instead of spending his last months alive with his family and making amends to those he wronged, he threw himself into his first love: money.
One thing I'll always be thankful about him is that he knew I was an honest man who wouldn't say what he wanted to hear as everyone else did. It was hard for him to get good data out of people, because the sycophants whould whisper sweet nothings into his ears when what he really needed was to be told the truth.
When he hired me, I told him I would be unlike the other employees and would always be honest with him. I think he respected me for that, as we sometimes had loud disagrements when he'd ask me to do something shady and I refused. This was before I found out he had cancer, which he told me about the following year.
True loyalty is huge to me as it means more than just doing what someone else wants. Sometimes it means speaking up when no one else will. He thanked me that day in the office for being truthful to him, and being someone who's word he could always count on.
Many times he'd call me over to find out the truth of a situation, as he knew I'd never lie to him. We do ourselves and others a service by being men of our word and speaking up when the time is right. That's true loyalty.
As we sat in the office that day, we ended up talking for hours about his soul, and the afterlife. Always a greedy man, he worshiped the dollar bill he wouldn't be able to take with him.
Instead of spending his last months alive with his family and making amends to those he wronged, he threw himself into his first love: money.
One thing I'll always be thankful about him is that he knew I was an honest man who wouldn't say what he wanted to hear as everyone else did. It was hard for him to get good data out of people, because the sycophants whould whisper sweet nothings into his ears when what he really needed was to be told the truth.
When he hired me, I told him I would be unlike the other employees and would always be honest with him. I think he respected me for that, as we sometimes had loud disagrements when he'd ask me to do something shady and I refused. This was before I found out he had cancer, which he told me about the following year.
True loyalty is huge to me as it means more than just doing what someone else wants. Sometimes it means speaking up when no one else will. He thanked me that day in the office for being truthful to him, and being someone who's word he could always count on.
Many times he'd call me over to find out the truth of a situation, as he knew I'd never lie to him. We do ourselves and others a service by being men of our word and speaking up when the time is right. That's true loyalty.
(sorry this "comment" was so long, I have to stop writing post-length responses. But on this Christmas day, your article made me think of the old seadog, he was a tough man, and I hope he's in a better place now.)
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No... no need to apologize for your comment I basically believe it was revealing. I had worked a lot with people who had this blood-lust for money and one thing I have realised is that this kind of people hardly values loyalty and this is because it becomes difficult for them to value something they wouldn't value above money.
I think it was definitely unwise of him to still see the essence of money despite the fact that he wouldn't be alive to spend it, it's a bizarre situation with people who loves money and are loyal to it.
Needless to say, we need honest people in life.. our lives in general. On a place like hi Maxwell respective of money we need transparent people as well because that transparency is actually the future of the chain.
Thanks for that one.
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