It’s all good and well to lambaste everyone who is not taking their job seriously, but what good will it bring about in the end? If I chastise a man for being hungry, then refuse to offer him food and decline to teach him where to find something to satisfy himself. Then I will be drawing attention to his lack and thereby making his sorry condition even worse.

It is one thing to be hungry and unaware and an entirely different thing to be starving and continuously reminded of your want. The same goes for the individual wandering aimlessly from job to job, leaving a wake of unsatisfied employers and customers behind. If I draw to that person’s attention that they are a sluggard and scum bag for being so nihilistic in their professional life and do not bend down to help them. Then, I am no different than the man with knowledge of a secret and abundant food source refusing to help those who hunger. Not only would i be refusing to offer any help I would also be, in a way, doing something worse. Hunger unnoticed is more natural to deal with and less painful than hunger that you’re aware of. The purpose of bringing an ailment to light is for that of healing. To do otherwise would be to undermine the coping mechanisms of the body.

In other words, if I shed light on the aimlessness of employees in the workplace but do not help them find something to aim towards, I would be causing them more pain than if they were allowed to struggle on in the darkness. So, In hopes of giving aim to the aimless, I have drafted five methods that I think could be used to help reduce workplace nihilism.