comfortable blanket wrapped around me with a fake fireplace “burning” the logs on my large television. I turned on my kindle to listen to a great radio show called Adventures in Oydssey, (http://www.whitsend.org). There many episodes that with many characters that
do scenarios. After the show, there is a summary on how we as Christians can relate to this
particular episode and there is a reference to a particular verse in the bible. This particular
episode is called “Welcoming Wooten.” The theme or subtitle is about being fired from the job.
There two main characters that are named “Whit,” the owner of the store. Just a side …show more content…
note on “Whit” was my childhood nickname. “Whooten,” the postal delivery man. The other characters
worked at the store are “Connie” and “Nick,” a store clerk that is always late to work. The
story takes place in a fictitious biblical town called Oydssey. The show referenced
Phillipians 4:1 (KJV), “Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and
crown, so stand fast in the lord, my dearly beloved.”
“Whit” is the wise old dominate conflict man who is the owner of a store. It seems like
local store that everybody comes to get some for snacks. There is a kind of connection for the
people to come in to get the small town friendly “Hello.” He is the problem solver for handling any kind conflict that both the young and old can trust in confidence. He is a genuine caring
person that knows everybody and definitely knows when something is wrong or somebody is missing, this is confirmed by the many radio broadcasts that can be listened to daily.
“Wooten” is the charactismatic oblige conflict man who has a wonderful relationship
that he comes in contact with. As a postal delivery man, he has developed a relationship with
everyone that he delivers mail to. There is an example of developing a relationship with one of
his customers. When he comes to a particular house, he does this particular knock to let the
person know that it is “Wooten” making a postal delivery of the mail. There is also another
example, when he goes into a business, he greets and has a general conversation with the
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customer. Everybody knows “Wooten” and he knows everybody. His personality allows him to
have a good relationship with his coworkers, bosses and everybody that he comes in contact
with. He does not waste one minute hesitate to help out a fellow person, regardless of what the
issue is or the consequences will be for his actions.
This story began with “Wooten” being a long time postal delivery man. He has never
been late or called off for being sick. He is a very dependable worker that can be counted
on to complete his postal route in a timely manner. He is making his rounds, when it is time for
him to walk into the store. He greets “Connie” with kindness and she replied back with her
kindness. He also notices that she is having a problem with “Nick” not arriving to work on time
for his shift. Of course, “Connie” has to leave work in order for her obligations after her shift.
Guess who comes to the rescue, “Wooten.” So “Wooten” offers to watch the store until “Nick”
shows up to work. “Connie” leaves the store, while “Wooten” watches the store. Guess who
shows up at the store, you guess it, the store owner. “Whit” comes walking into the store while
“Wooten” was watching the store in his postal uniform. “Whit” being the nice boss was just
curious on why “Wooten” was there at the store, and where was “Nick.” “Wooten is relieved
by “Whit” and he goes to complete his postal route. Never knew with what happen to “Nick.”
Needless to say, “Wooten” shows up late back at the post office. The post office non
compromise boss is not happy, nor was he mad with “Wooten.” The boss is sad due to he
knows at has to fire “Wooten.” He just notes that this is not the first time of being late back at
the post office. The boss calls in “Wooten” and gives those terrible words, “You're Fird.”
“Wooten” was not upset, nor mad, he just went on his way back to his home. The other postal
delivery man shows up at the store to the surprise of the store owner. “Whit” asked, “Where is
Wooten?” The an replies that he was fired. “Whit” goes to talk to “Wooten” at his apartment. He
helps “Wooten” with a new job at rapid package delivery company like FedEx or UPS. This job
does not last to long. The problem with this job is that “Wooten” could not deliver the courtesy
THE EPISODE OF CONFLICT 4 customer service like he did with his postal job due to the package was his numbers.
Finally summation of the episode has “Whit” resolved this great conflict with the greatest
solution. I just wish and pray that I would always find these great people. “Whit” solution was to
have “Wooten” to come work for him at his store. This way, “Wooten” could always have a
people relationship with the customers and he could greet them with his calm,cheerful and a
bright smile greeting like “Hello, Welcome to Whit's Store, How are you?”
One procedure to resolve a conflict is called TRIP. Topic of this conflict was “Wooten”
getting fired because he is a people person, who loved people and will do anything to assist
regardless of consequences. Relationship was very good with all the people that he came in
contact with. There was a good relationship with the store owner and it's employees. There was
was no bad feelings between “Whit,” “Wooten,” and the “Boss.” The relationship with his …show more content…
boss
was very good, there were no harsh feelings between the parties even after being fired. Identity
was to get “Wooten” a job where he could be around people and enjoy them to be a service to
them. Process was for “Whit” to figure out how to get “Wooten” to work into a person loving job
position. There was no gender conflict in this episode. This was not a massive difficult conflict to
resolve. There is no forgiveness that is needed. Definitely no third party mediator was needed. There was no power struggle to resolve the conflict. The levers of power was that of Christian loving friend. “Wooten” needed a support to into a working environement that he could
enjoyed. “Whit” also made sure and shown concerned when “Wooten” was not working both
as a postal and rapid package delivery man. “Whit” went out of his way to go visit “Wooten.”
When he was fired from his postal job, “Whit” found him a job at the rapid package delivery
company. When he quit his job, “Whit,” again, gave him a job at his store.
This is most definitely could be an ongoing conflict with “Wooten.” To answer the key
question, Was this conflict preventable? When I think about this question, I would have to go
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into the mindset of “Wooten.” The most obvious answer to the question is that, of course, this
type of conflict is always preventable.
Without going deep into his mindset. I am beginning to
wonder how his previous people relationships had affected his latest episodes of not being able to hold a job either by being fired or quitting a job.
I had the pleasure of working and dealing with numerious of people in a supervisory role.
After further review, these people are really nice, kindest and genuine, within their heart, and will do anything for you. They are usually alone and do not love themselves. Depending on how
I was counciling or was going to let them go, I will try to let them know that they are not alone.
My scriptural verse that I use to give me support, 1 John 4:18 (KJV), “There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” I would highly recommend the radio show, Adventure of Odssey. This show is for the
youth, but the adults can enjoy the show, too. There are always excellent stories that always end
with summary with a referenced on how we can use show in our everyday experince of being a
Christian. The show also gives a verse from the bible to be use and help start a conversation with
your love ones and
strangers.
Final summation of the final conflict from my view of radio episode “Welcoming
Wooten” is that “Wooten” could have prevented the firing from his job at the post office. He quit
his job at the rapid package volunteerly. There is no need a meditor moderate the conflicts in
“Wooten” because he trys to avoid them at all costs. He is very lucky that he has a friend like
“Whit” that has resources available to him that can be used to understand and help “Wooten.”
“Wooten” is very kind individual that loves being around people and is always willing to help.
People were always willing to help “Wooten” due he was always willing to help him due to he is
always there to assist, regardless of the consequences. The final statement is that “Wooten” really
like being a Christian servant.