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Flip the Script: Changing Work Culture
Day Sixty-five
Changing Work Culture
“We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give.
Too much change is required inside, outside. And we are too small.
But all that is required is that you step into the truth of your life.
And speak it, write it, paint it, dance it.
That you shine your light on your truth, for the world to see.
And as hundreds, then thousands, then millions do this — each sparking the courage of yet more — Suddenly we have a world alight with truth.” ~Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
Changing work culture happens because someone asks for something that has never been valued or respected and that one action impacts the culture for the next person.
In 1989, my four-year-old daughter started “acting out” at preschool. My husband and I were in the middle of a custody battle and the current arrangement gave me weekends and him the weekdays. Driving to pick my kids up from school, I had a heart to heart with “God, Goddess, All that is.” In one of the few times, I have received an audio message, I heard, “Go to a 4-day week.”
I felt the truth of that and went to my boss the next day.
My job was computer software trainer at a pharmaceutical company working a 5-day, 40+-hour week. When I told my boss my daughter…
