Smiling Faces

A group called the Undisputed Truth had a song once... it was about not trusting anyone. It states, "Smiling faces -- sometimes pretend to be your friend. Smiling faces show no traces of of the evil that lurks within. Smiling faces , smiling faces sometimes -- they don't tell the truth . Smiling faceas, smiling faces sometimes don't tell the truth, and I've got proof."

It's interesting to me, what you find out about people that you trust. For instance, someone can work for you for a year, and you do not really know them. This has happened a couple of times lately. There are a couple of people who have been at my restaurant since before I was transfered there -- they became people I thought I could count on. At leat that was my impression. Now I think I have a much clearer view of both of them. After all I have been through in my life (and it's been a bunch in the minute I've been alive), I now find that I am just as naive as I was when I was left to my own devises as a young person. At least that is what is apparent to me now. I used to be very cynical, but found that to be a lonely and unfufilling life. Because of chnges in my personal setting, I discovered trust again, and friendship. It was shortly after that time that I realized that, other than those very, very close to you -- there really is no one that you can trust and depend on. It seems as though everyone has their own adgenda.

Quite frankly, who can blame someone for having their own adgenda in every social situation in which they find themselves? If no one truly cares about them, then why should they care about others? I am just saddened by what has happened in the last month or two at my restaurant.

If nothing else, it has been a learning experience. I hope that I am wrong about one of them. I was hoping against hope that what I was hearing was not true about her. But, then, one of my other staff members called me today and said she had looked up this other person on the circuit court website. That is great. But now I have information in my head that I do not have a use for.... I can't, as an employer, access the site where this information was accessed. Interesitng. However, if something should affect the employment of said offendder -- then I am perfectly fine in finding out. That is a little messed up, but that is how the system works in this county. If it does not affect their professional role (ie., you will have no problems not hiring an acountant to do yuour bookwork who has embezzeled from a previous company), then you have every right to deny them on that basis alone. However, because you do not have access to that information before you hire them, you are stuck with what you get. LOL :-)