Faith

I do work for a company that I used to work at as an employee, and as happens occasionally, events with customers or internal developments don't go quite as planned. It's frustrating to me but I go with the flow as they say, understanding that it's difficult at times to get customers moving at the speed you might like. We've all been there.

There are guidelines or rules as well though as to how our interactions happen - that is between the company and I, and while I have to have faith that our work together will be fairly looked at, I do find it interesting and concerning that at times that's one-way. You see when things are up in the air as they often are with customers, the company sees risk and so do I. When this happens there's a very clear choice that has to be made - do you continue to work in good faith, or do you put on the brakes and decide not to expose yourself, waste anymore valuable time and so on without some guarantee of being compensated.

Now, I for one like the idea of faith in each other, as it makes the pavement of life a little better to walk along if I look at it in a big picture sense, but I'm also aware we live in a litigious society today, and the lack of a confirmed commitment to do work together means we don't have one. In the event that things do turn out for the worse, then I would be relying on the goodwill of my friends at the company to do the right thing. That spells more risk for me, but none for them.

Faith works best when it's shared, when we all have the same vision for what success looks like and move together in that direction. Having faith alone in something - that's usually the start of the definition of 'crazy'.