An-Najm : 31
Yea, to Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: so that He rewards those who do evil, according to their deeds, and He rewards those who do good, with what is best.
an-Najm: 32
Those who avoid great sins and shameful deeds, only (falling into) small faults,- verily thy Lord is ample in forgiveness. He knows you well when He brings you out of the earth, And when ye are hidden in your mothers' wombs. Therefore justify not yourselves: He knows best who it is that guards against evil.
How do you feel if you are acting as the head of a unit where you have to supervise some workers under your authority, but you were annoyed. Just gave them some tasks and they will say, no we are busy for another works. How do you feel when they never give little respect to you and they just do what ever they want to do about without asking your permission in the first place? It must be really tough working with these people. You have the authority but you have no power on them.
Last 2 years, I preferred to keep silent and try to finish the work although the works actually assigned to them not me. They just sit in a group and chatting about everything, but not any single thing about their responsibility as a worker. I never complaint about them and i just give them trust to change but it just doesn't work at all. In other hand, they became to be so arrogant and cannot be criticized at all.
This year, it seems the situation is change. I don't know where it come from but i feel that I need to do something for the sake of our organization and foremost for the sake of ALLAH s.w.t I can be silent forever and let them enjoy their times by chatting and gossiping. But that's not right and I am actually should be blamed for being so tolerate and let them took advantage on my weaknesses. I started to do investigation about them and I found they were actually protected by the head of department, which means a person who have more authority than me. For example, they don't come to work and they don't have to come to ask for leave. They just give a call to the authority. In other hand, if i need emergency leave, there were too many procedures which require me to come to work first , fill up the forms and see the authority to explain the reason.
This system makes me feel bored. Those who come to works just to waste their time by gossiping others are having more privilege over those who struggle and work so hard to accomplish the organization's objectives. This year, they saw different "me". I started to give them works with due dates to submit their works. I write all the instructions officially in a sheet of paper and obtained the signature of the authority and give the letter to them. In case if they still refused to do it, I'll just let the authority take actions on them.
Today... one of them come and asked me excitedly. Do you want to send me to a course outstation next weeks? It seems she is so interested to go outside since she don't have to do works in the office. I said "No... i have already choose some one else which is more senior than you. She is more appropriate for this work" She was little bit upset, I asked her where do you know about the outstation work? She said with worried...err..err we received a call from the office" she said to me. I asked her..who choose you to go outstation?" i realized she looked back and said the head of department asked to go. "I said to her, it is my job to choose who I want to go to the outstation, not her. And do not make any decision without asking me next time" I can see she was so upset. I turn around and leave her with her friends. Before going back from work...she came to me and asked me politely ..." I am sorry and this is my works" it seems sometimes we have to act serious and little bossy right ?