You can’t have that out in plain sight,” the woman said to me. Her hair was pulled so tight it tugged on her eyes. “Someone might get offended.”
She then whirled around and walked away, her clackety-clack shoes echoing against the tile floor.
What offended her was the book with an obviously Christian title in my hand on the way out to lunch. Shocked as much by her bold intrusion into my reading habits as I was by her pronouncement, it brought to reality a decision that I needed to make: Would I live the life of working safely, tucking my beliefs away? Or would I be God’s man, comfortable in the new skin he had put me in?
Considering what was at stake, it wasn’t an easy decision. As a newly hired manager, I had fought through the thicket of at least two dozen applicants for this job. I was entrusted with a big responsibility, a budget and a supervisory position. Plus I had a family that was counting on my paycheck.
What else would I have to hide?
What would it hurt to hide that little book? But to do so, I would have to hide a thousand other things.
Read the rest of this post over at High Calling Blogs.
What unwritten rules in the workplace should we keep, and which ones should we ignore?
Have you ever made a “dangerous choice” at work ? What happened?
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