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Workplace Amends

Alcoholism can leave fingerprints all over a workplace.

The mistakes may include stolen time, dishonesty, missed shifts, poor work, borrowed money, damaged equipment, or expecting coworkers to cover what we did not handle. Sometimes the harm was obvious. Sometimes it was hidden inside a pattern everyone else quietly learned to work around.

Workplace amends show that harm is not limited to dramatic personal relationships. A person can injure trust by being consistently unavailable, even without one giant event.

It resembles removing one bolt from a machine. The machine may keep running, but everybody nearby notices the wobble, and they worry about it on some level or another. Step Nine notices the wobble as well as the explosion.

Did you show to up work 100%?

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