Professional pride - do your job well or get out

The world of work. Most of us make a living by working for others, be it in private companies, government organisations or by securing piece jobs. Even when we are 'self-employed', we have to work to survive. And to survive well we have to work hard.

So far so good. But what is our attitude towards the world of work, towards our employers, our supervisors, towards our job? Try to do business at a government department on a Monday morning and you will meet grumpy, uncooperative and completely disinterested workers, who are still recovering from the weekend. Come back on a Friday after two o'clock and you will be told that the officer you are looking for 'hasn't returned from lunch yet'. If you are inexperienced enough, you will keep waiting, only to find out the officer will never return until the next Monday, when you will be dealing with the 'weekend syndrome' again.