My Boss Told Me It’s A Time And Money Thing

“It’s a time and money thing.” What a great excuse to not have to do something, and blame it on something outside of your control. It’s like a parking officer saying “I’m just doing my job”. While it’s true, it provides very little consolation for the fact you just got ticketed.

Another popular one: “My boss told me to …”. It reduces you to a messenger, and we all know to never shoot the messenger. So we don’t. But what happened to responsibility, standing behind the work you’re doing, believing in something? If you truly disagree with what your boss told you your job is, you always have the option to say something about it, or ultimately quit and look for another job. Something you believe in. It makes you stand out, instead of hiding behind your boss who told you so. It takes a bit of character to not hide behind all those easy excuses like your boss, time and money.

Time and money are both completely irrelevant, anyway. Every single human being is busy doing something at any given po…