On the 29th day of every month of a work
calendar the employees in an office set up always seem to have a permanent
smile as if the edges of their mouths were tapped to their ears. These serves
as a reprieve after the long wait 28 days of turmoil and monotony of their so
called professional careers. However not all employees can afford even a slight
grin on their faces because some them all that it means is a low pay check
almost going blank. The reason behind it is that they simply could not stand spending
on their exemplary luxurious life and addictions to substances in life and
therefore had to take advanced loans from the workplace, friends, shylocks and
financial lending institutions a few days after their first pay check. While
others get fat checks and smile all the way to the bank they wish that the
dreaded end month could be scrapped from the working calendar as this reminds
them of how they did poor budgeting and incurred expenses they would have
otherwise avoided.
Some would say that even if an employee was asked to name
his price the wants will always supersede the needs and they would always find
themselves walking on a tight rope towards the last stretch of the month. But
others cut the long wait of waiting for end month by working on a shoe string
budget as they count days towards the end of the month. Its almost evident that
most employees develop a tendency not to report to work or report late during
the first few days after their pay as they are always busy trying to obtain
self satisfaction from their hard earned money. After 3-4 days when they have
partially fulfilled their needs and wants reality dawns on them as their wells
begin to run low and they are bound to embrace normalcy and keep time at work
with the hope that their next pay checques will elevate them to another level
of fulfilling their obligations.
The middle days of the month often sees most of the
employees agitated by obviously small issues, absenteeism, in some cases high
turnover rate of labour as they are heavily hit with post traumatic stress,
depression from trying to adopt to being broke and at this level most of them
feel like their day- to- day job sucks. They are more likely to envy their
entrepreneur friends who make money most
of the time without even having to wait for the end of the month not knowing
that even with becoming an entrepreneur the wait still has to be experienced in
the short run.
Like sitting on a chair across the room and waiting for the
paint to dry, the long wait for end month is rater slow and cumbersome and most
people would rather not tread along that road, buy hey wake up and smell the
coffee nobody said that life is easy and besides good things are worth waiting
for.