Am I a bad guy?

how bad we are.
No one ever wakes up and says, “I am a bad guy”. When you take your kids to the movies your son does not walk away saying that he wants to grow up and be the villain, of course not.
No, we all want to be the hero — the one who everyone applauds. So we constantly surround ourselves with those who affirm us as good people.
Unfortunately, we rarely take a candid introspective look at ourselves and ask, “Am I a bad guy?”
We live in a country that claims to be 80 percent Christian with a significant portion of the remaining 20 percent subscribing to other forms of religious belief.
That means that over 80 percent of us apparently ascribe to some form of value system.
Looking around I have a hard time believing that judging by your eight-foot wall with electric fence.
Either people are confused, or we are a nation of hypocrites. Maybe you wake up saying, “I am not a bad guy”. Well, I beg to differ if you do any of the following.
You’re a bad guy…
1) If you are giving people a reason to sue you. If you have signed contract and have not adhered to it, changed the terms, or have not paid.
If you’re not answering your phone, you’ve changed your address and you are in the process of changing your name too, then you are a yellow-bellied bad guy. You are the villain in that movie.
2) If you are suing two or more people right now for the wrong reasons. Be the bigger man cut your losses.
Improve your judgments of people and business deals. Where you can try solve issues out of court.
3) If you give poor customer service. You own a restaurant and charge US$4 for a rock-shandy, you serve crappy coffee, your workplace is dirty and your receptionist is rude and addicted to Facebook. Jack up your act!
4) If you have three new Mercedes at your house and your maid gets less than US$200 a month.
That’s just immoral. It is also wrong when you keep her on call beyond normal hours and fail to pay overtime.
5) If you have said in the past week, “It’s not personal it is just business” as you take someone for a ride.
People are business and business is people. If you take advantage of someone’s helplessness or ignorance and sell something with a 200 percent mark-up, you are plain greedy.
6) If you are trying to get a large cut of every deal that you come across. Understand your value. For a change, try helping people with no expectation of getting anything back.
7) If you are offering loans at more than 15 percent per month. Even if it is legal, high interest rates are crippling us, especially when inflation figures are reported as much lower.
8) Don’t leave rubbish everywhere, unless you are a rodent or enjoy watching vermin spreading diseases.
While you are at it, stop the friend next to you from doing the same. Have a little pride and keep things beautiful.
9) If you are not a security guard yet you demand money for “watching cars”. Although you will probably never read this, get a real job you lazy beggar. Stop hassling productive citizens.
If you get offended reading the list, perhaps you should have a look at what you can change.
I can hear another self-righteous idealist chiding me saying, “Why aren’t you talking about anything good?
Why aren’t you talking about all the good guys? Well, I actually am. If you are not doing these bad things, you are probably a good guy.
I like you, well done! Thank you for being in Zimbabwe.
Please stay here and give me a call. Zimbabwe, let’s rock it and be better people who do better business.