Please care

The hardest part of life is getting people to understand why they need to be considerate of others.

I have been trying to get a job done for a week now at work. It is a job that is important. It is a job that directly affects the work of other people. It is a job that I would like to get finished so that I can get it behind me.

When I was first told to take on this task, I explained, I will need the following: A helper. A forklift. A plan. An organizational system.

I created a plan and an organizational system. The rest, I needed to rely on my supervisor to take care of.

My supervisor provided help. Sort of. He took a person in the office off his work to help when I really needed someone who was a person who needed to utilize the items I was organizing to help move them. That way, they could be organized in a wway that made sense because those people are the ones who use the item and are actually physically stronger. But no. My help was an office worker who doesn’t know the need of the people I’m doing this for and can’t lift much more than I can. So instead of being able to move it properly the first time, it had to be done as we both could muster, taking several breaks because my help was not able to work quite as hard as me. I know the other people wouldn’t have broken a sweat and the job could have been done in 2 days.

I started working with the forklift, but realized I needed more space to do what needs to be done, so I changed the plan to accommodate and make more space. Another person came and asked if they could use the forklift. I said sure, but please bring it back here unless it needs to be recharged. If it needs to be recharged, please put it on the charger. Neither was done and I couldn’t find the forklift and no one brought it to me or told me where it was.

The next day, the forklift turned up, but it was behind a ton of carts, and I had no way to get it. It stayed there all day. No one moved it.

I was able to get to the forklift the next day, but it was down to no charge, which means it has to be on the charger for the majority of the day because the work I need to do will take a full battery. Another day gone.

Every day, I have reported to my supervisor why the work hasn’t gotten done and explained there is no solution because of the needs I have.

If someone else had cared about the needs of another person, this would not have happened. The forklift would have been returned to where I asked. The forklift would have been made accessible. The forklift would have been charged and ready to go. But it was left to be “someone else’s problem, not mine”.

And it doesn’t end with this task.

They come in and move things around making it difficult for others to find what they are looking for.

They move things and don’t put them back where they got them from, making it harder to find and ruining organization that is done to help them.

They leave things out, expecting someone else to put them back for them despite not leaving any information on what those things are.

Not their problem.

Not their job.

Not their need to care about anyone but themselves.

Until they can’t find what they need. Then it becomes my fault. Despite their actions of not caring.

And this is just one area that I work with.

This happens every day, everywhere, there are people who literally can’t be fucked to care about others. Shit gets destroyed. organization becomes chaotic. Nothing can get accomplished because no one bothered to think about the next person.

Not my problem.

Not my job.

Doesn’t affect me.

I got what I want.

No need to think about other people when I am satisfied.

And when they are inconvenienced, it is always someone else’s fault for not cleaning up after them. They are put out because they created a situation that they could have avoided if they had just cared.

Because it’s easier to blame someone else than take a moment to care about your actions and how they affect others.

I think this is what so many people are exhausted with. Caring about others when others couldn’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves. They got what they wanted. Too bad for you. Maybe you should have been selfish and thoughtless too.

It’s like a disease. You see other people being satisfied by not giving a shit. You think why are you giving a shit when it doesn’t profit you. So you come to a cross roads and debate if you should just act the same.

The only way we can survive as a society is by giving a shit about others. Even if it will never directly benefit you. The point of caring for others isn’t the reward to you. It is for the pride of caring for a system. It is simply realizing that your actions directly affect someone else and giving a shit about that. Caring is quick, it’s easy and should be second nature.

Please start caring about others. It doesn’t make you weak or stupid. It makes you a functioning, healthy member of society. It makes you feel better knowing you did something good for someone else. Feeling better should be all the reward one needs.