Change of ownership of a bakery, staff assets, “product” all intact… carefully done.
As I have been an observer for the first transition and now the second transition, I wonder, will I be seeing a pattern? Is it unavoidable?
The Staff was chosen, trained and reared (much like a child growing up in a family) by the first owners, Clem and Shirley McAlpine. The new owners come along, and they cannot be like the former owner, even if they tried! Especially with a tiny establishment the impact is drastic!
The tendency is to associate the anxiety with the tangible. Couple that with the transient nature of these kinds of jobs. The workers are part timers. House wives, students, folks who take a second job to earn money for a special project or a planned trip, all come to mind. There’s not much for them to lose going somewhere else. Unlike a professional who has to consider what cutting ties will do. If it’s their main source of income the temptation to move to something else is balanced out with the anxiety of not knowing what’s in store in the next place.
Better the devil you know.
…said when you think it is wiser to deal with someone or something familiar, althoughyou do not like him, her, or it, than to dealwith someone or something you do not know that might be worse.
In my ever creative, poetic mind, I see a tangent into the person who switches their attention from one way of life for a new one, without being born again. Without becoming dead to the old man!
In Christ we are called to become a living sacrifice!
We must leave Egypt! The wilderness, perhaps is that place between!
Running Down Vimy 