What I want to talk about right now is job security. Maybe this is just the conservative side of me leaking out, but isn't job security supposed to be important. I'd rather have a lower salary and more job security than a high salary and not very much job security. Sorry if I'm the only one that feels that way, but I believe there is value in knowing you're wanted, knowing you're in this company's/organization's/church's plans for the future.
Take the yankees for example. There was recent talk that Steinbrenner was about to dismiss Joe Torre as manager of the NY Yankees. WHAT???? Isn't this the same Joe Torre that has led the NY Yankees to a division title year after year for the past decade? Doesn't that mean something?
Days later, Cashman fired Marty Miller, the Yankees director of performance enhancement (yes, there is a job position open every MLB team with the phrase "performance enhancement" in the title). He was fired because of all the injuries the Yankees have suffered lately (he was hired for the sole purpose of injury prevention). I find this situation odd. It's not like Miller was plotting ways to hurt Phil Hughes' hamstring. He didn't attack him with a sledge hammer.
What if I were to be fired because one of my teenagers hurt himself/herself and was unable to attend church for a few weeks? I would be appalled at how little sense that makes. At what point in our lives can stop analyzing the results and start analyzing the "why". When statheads study stats, they are looking at results (some exceptions do apply). There is nothing wrong with this, it is something that I have gotten into recently. But I think the real value comes with answering the question "why do we get these results?" Great, this person hits a lot of groundballs....why? This pitcher gives up a lot of homers. That's too bad, why is that? Not many homers get hit in this ballpark. Thats neat, why?
There's more to it than just results. As former Braves broadcaster and hall of fame pitcher Don Sutton once said,
"not all good pitches produce good results, not all bad pitches produce bad results."
~Don Sutton
Results can often be a little misleading, after the question "why" is asked. That is easily seen when you look at the yankees' situation the past few weeks. I'm not a betting man, but if I was I would put a lot of money that says Torre isn't to blame for the Yankees' slow start. Nor would I say that Miller caused the hamstring injuries.
But results transfer beyond the realms of MLB. I want to do anything/everything I know to do to see that the teens here at Central Avenue are growing spiritually. I am very communicative with the elders. They know what's going on, they understand the struggles that I have gone through my rookie year of ministry. We are on the same page and I am more than positive that the Elders are committed to me for longterm ministry.
I would never take a job where there is a history of letting workers go because of results that worker might not have even had anything to do with. I'm thankful that I wake up everymorning and not have to worry about keeping my job.
But results transfer beyond the realms of MLB. I want to do anything/everything I know to do to see that the teens here at Central Avenue are growing spiritually. I am very communicative with the elders. They know what's going on, they understand the struggles that I have gone through my rookie year of ministry. We are on the same page and I am more than positive that the Elders are committed to me for longterm ministry.
I would never take a job where there is a history of letting workers go because of results that worker might not have even had anything to do with. I'm thankful that I wake up everymorning and not have to worry about keeping my job.
2 comments:
What an unfortunate title for anyone in baseball to have: anything with "performance enhancement" in it.
I was listening to Mike & Mike on the way to work this morning, and they were rationalizing that his training techniques beginning in the spring were perhaps responsible for the team's conditioning (and thus the injuries).
The problem with that is that it's a perilously small sample size to really base anything on, so this is clearly a reactionary firing. Someone had to take the fall, or the team was going to self-destruct (at least in the eyes of fickle NY fans).
Yeah, John I hear ya. It demands nothing but hindsight. If somebody else would have come in and had another kind of training technique and a player or two got injured, I bet we'd see the same thing.
It's crazy
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