THE RELIABILITY SCALE & METER

Have you also ever had to wonder how some people survive being friends, relatives, acquaintances or even doing business with certain kind of people? If yes, then I’m relieved, that makes two of us. God! Some people are just impossible.

Give them a job to do, they will give you assurances like non other, only for you to turn your back to go and that is the end of everything. They promise to deliver jobs at so and so time, and they probably even swear on their mother’s grave, check them out at the arranged time, you’ll be pretty surprised. Pay them for services and after they have collected the money that is the end of the job. They’ll never deliver. Agree to meet with them at a particular time, when the time comes, you are the only one that shows up. They never call to tell you they are going to be late or would not come, and worse still, they see nothing wrong with their actions. Impossible people! They are everywhere. They rate very low on the reliability meter.

You find friends who rate so low on the reliability meter, business people who just can’t keep to time, family who take agreements for granted, and all of them fault you for being the one who tries to do the right things.

As you go on relating with people, you must know that there is such a thing called the Reliability scale, and not everyone weighs well on it. There is such a thing called the Reliability meter and not everyone rates the same on it. Painfully, you won’t know where anyone stands until you have experienced them at least once. Sadly that is the reality. You must carry this knowledge with you as you relate with different people, once you know where they stand, you’ll hardly be disappointed with them, and then you can decide whether they are the kind of people for whom you always have to make a Plan B or they are people you can trust most of the time.