This Week's Opening Thought: September 24, 2024
This week's opening thought: Here's your reminder to maintain your peace by maintaining your boundaries. Boundaries are healthy.
The folx who always have something to say about you having boundaries are not.
A case in point is Shark Tank investor and long-time unhealthy person of pallor Kevin O'Leary, who has too much money on his hands made off the backs of others and too many "opinions" about respecting people's peace and boundaries.
Australia recently joined the ranks of countries like France, Spain, and Belgium by passing a “right to disconnect” law enacted on August 26. This legislation allows employees to step away from work-related communications outside their official working hours, ensuring that personal time remains personal. O'Leary's take on this? Quote:
"This kind of stuff just makes me crazy. It’s so dumb. Who dreams this crap up is my question. And why would anybody propose such a stupid idea? What happens if you have an event in the office and it’s closed? Or you have an emergency somewhere, and you have to get a hold of them at two in the morning because it affects the job they’re working on?”
He then said that he doesn't hesitate to fire people if he can't reach them at any time of day.
Not answering your phone at some random time of day or night when you're not scheduled to work is a healthy boundary.
Calling people with "urgent" matters at random times of the night because you're up, so everybody should be up and working, and if they're not, they are somehow "less than"? That is an indicator of an unhealthy person.
Do you think Kevin is a healthy person?
Just sayin'.
Gon' 'head and cut that phone off when your shift is over.
Be healthy.