Prideful Anger!

The company that I work for has an attendance bonus that you can receive if you punch in and out on time everyday of the month. Before covid, you used to have to punch in and out for breaks and lunch in addition to punching in and out for work. Now they just expect you to punch in and out at the beginning of your shift and at the end. Sounds pretty easy right. Think again (well at least in my case). Two weeks ago, in the middle of the week, I was switched from one of our facilities to the other. Now anyone who knows me well, knows that I am a creature of habit. So my whole habit was upended. I've worked the other place before, but it had been many months since I had been over there. So basically relearning everything all over again.

One day, a truck was running late to deliver some product. I really don't want the overtime and was kind of mad that they expected me to stay. My pride was getting in the way. "How dare they ask me to stay to unload a truck". "Don't they know that I have things to do?" "I don't live to work here." So long story short, I did stay and unloaded the truck even though I wasn't happy about it. So with my pride being hurt, and being ticked off, I failed to punch out when I went home. Because of my prideful anger, I just lost $150.00. That is the monthly bonus amount.

Proverbs 16:18 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction,
    and haughtiness before a fall.

So because of my pride and haughtiness, I destroyed my paycheck by $150. Because I thought that I was more important, I let my anger get the best of me, and it cost me.

Proverbs 14:17 The Message (MSG)

¹⁷ The hotheaded do things they’ll later regret;

It wasn't until the next morning when I realized that I hadn't punched out. My boss emailed me to ask, and I told him that I was sure that I did. But then I started thinking about it. In my anger and being upset because I had to stay late, I just grabbed my stuff and headed right out the door, bypassing  the time clock. In my hotheadedness in the moment, I regretted that I just had blown my bonus for the month! We depend on that extra money each month. It was easy peasy to attain. Punch in, punch out. Pretty simple, right!

 The company doesn't always ask me to stay late, but sometimes they do. I can't ask God to provide money for our bills and then He provides overtime and then I get mad about the overtime. Who am I to question God and His provision.

Proverbs 19:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹¹Good sense and discretion make a man slow to anger,
And it is his honor and glory to overlook a transgression or an offense [without seeking revenge and harboring resentment].

I pray this verse the next time something like this happens!
    

 

    

    

    

Proverbs 16:18