Surfing in Working Place

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Surfing in Working Place

• CHRIST in the Marketplace
• Oct 2008
• Ian Cheung

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Surfing in Working Place
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Surfing in Working Place

• Why you need to work?
• Money
• Applying your knowledge
• Kill time
• Develop your career/fulfill your dream
• Social/Peer Group Pressure
• Ways to contact non-believers

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Surfing in Working Place

• Mental Struggles in Market Place
• Unethical Company Objective
• Business Approach
• Wrong Direction from Supervisor
• Peer Group Behaviour
• Subordinates Request
• General Working Environment

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Surfing in Working Place

• Common Ways to Avoid Mental Struggle
• You are the boss
• Split Characters
• No One knows you are a Christian
• Repent all the times
• Job Hopping
• Anything wrong with these methods

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Surfing in Working Place

• Moral Sense in the Secular World
• Rules to maintain peace in our daily life
• Honour promises
• Play games by rules
• Respects the rights and claims of others
• Working even your boss is not looking
• Wait our turn in lines
• Courteous to Strangers
• Leave tips for waiters/waitresses
• Join campaigns that might not benefit you

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Surfing in Working Place

• If the moral sense do not contradict with our
  belief, why there is any mental struggle?
• Do you follow the moral sense?
• Do you find out any of your colleagues breaking
  the rules?
• Do you think they are breaking the rules?
• You feel that you are penalized
• Is there any downside in breaking the rules?
• Is revenge the only solution?

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Surfing in Working Place

• Grey Area ? Mental Struggle
• Expectation from Peers
• Any Action or inaction will bring harm
• Will be accused regardless (cannot make everyone
  happy)
• Time Constraints

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Surfing in Working Place

• Understand Parity btw Different Groups
• Upbringing ? Moral Standard (Different Age Group)
• Cultural Difference due to different origin
• Different role in the company
• Make friends and start the Dialogue
• Spend effort to learn
• Stand firm in your faith

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Surfing in Working Place

• Ethical Balance
• No Balance, Christ is expecting a higher standard
  from us
• We are not the judge
• Stress your Viewpoint, Repeat them
• Live up to your words ? Earn Respect
• Suffering is part of your life (Isolation may be
  a blessing)

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Surfing in Working PlacePersonal Advice

• Matt 1016
• Creative Ways to deal with ethical conflict
• Lead the trend
• Let go some opportunity
• Saving up money for rainy days
• No Gossip
• Positive Attitude, Look for solutions
• Pay more efforts in excelling your works
• Career is in Gods hand