Sometimes You Have To Be Ready To End Something
Every once in awhile, you have to decide whether it’s prudent to continue a battle or pull back and drop out of one. Well, battle may be a bit strong, but it’s still accurate, especially as we still have soldiers over in Iraq. However, that’s not what this post is about.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve deleted a couple of posts from a long time ago. Both had started causing me grief, but for much different reasons.
One of the posts was causing me grief because, for some reason, it keeps accepting spam that my spam blocker can’t seem to catch. Having one piece of spam here and there happens; having the amount of spam that I was getting on that one post was amazing. It seemed to be an innocuous post at the time, talking about blogging in general; I’m not sure why spam could find its way around it, but it did. So, I decided it was time for that one to go.
The other post was also innocuous, but it was supposed to be motivational. You know, every once in awhile you come across something that makes you feel good. Then you might decide to share it. I’ve posted links and videos here in the past, but this was one of the first I’d ever posted. I never thought anything about it, other than it made me feel good. However, it seemed that many people had a problem with it, that problem being that they wanted proof that the story was real. Personally, I didn’t care because I thought the point of the story was more important than anything else; apparently, I’m not in the norm. Being that it, also, was something I’d posted more than 18 months ago, I’d assumed it would just pass, but some things have very long lives. In the end, I decided it was a story I didn’t really want to talk about any longer, so I deleted it, as I had the other one.
To some, it might seem like I backed down; nothing can be further from the truth. Here’s the thing; as an employer, or manager in a company, you make a decision, and you live with the decision. If things go wrong, you have the opportunity to fix it. However, if the same thing keeps coming up, someone may have to go; that’s just how business is. Outside of the workplace, things might have to be changed up just a bit. Just because you believe something is right, unless you’re prepared to go to the mat all the way, sometimes it’s just better to remove something, either the problem, or yourself. Do you keep the peace, or do you cause even more disagreement.
I choose to try to bring some peace, if only to myself. Too many other, more important things, in the world to deal with. And, especially, in this blog.
