Week 12: Chapter 11 — Boundaries and Work

1.Cloud and Townsend describe several common workplace boundary problems: the employee who can never say no to extra work, the boss who demands unlimited access to employees' personal time, and the coworker who triangulates or gossips. Which of these feels most familiar to you?

2.The authors point out that Christians often feel especially guilty about workplace boundaries — as if dedicating everything to an employer is an expression of servanthood. How do they distinguish between a genuinely generous work ethic and an inability to protect oneself from exploitation?

3.Cloud and Townsend discuss the problem of taking on other people's work responsibilities — covering for a chronically underperforming colleague, for instance. What are the long-term costs of this kind of rescue? Who does it actually hurt?