Make A Difference In Whatever Role
Abel walks into my cubicle on a Monday morning, looking dejected and telling me, ‘There has been a break-in and theft.’ I ask him, ‘What is missing?’ ‘The stainless-steel valves we received into stock last week”, he replied. I am sad. This follows a pattern of break-ins at the weekends when staffs are away. I wince as I think of having to report on theft again at the supervisors’ meeting later in the day. This is not what I expect to be grappling with, in this role. ‘Abel, let us go and have a look,’ I say. I do not want to look demoralized to my team as I am just getting familiar with the job’s responsibilities of receipt, storage, and issuance of materials; maintaining inventory; keeping record and reconciling, and ensuring the effectiveness of the warehousing activities and staff performance. But these repeated thefts were making things difficult and it feels like a heavy, weight on my shoulders. ‘This cannot continue and we must bring it to a stop,’ I say to my team members w