New Person
So.. we have this new person at work. She's only been there for two days and she's already driving me crazy. She was *not* like this at the interview. Naturally, I'm training her because she's taking over my job so I can have a promotion of sorts. She'll be doing all of the redundant, mindless, entry-level work so I can do the actual HR-related stuff, like recruiting and benefits.
She's just a know-it-all. I'm going very slowly through a new hire packet to show her the things to look for and she's standing over *my* shoulder, pointing out things the applicant missed. Excuse me?
If you've ever trained someone, you'd know that you do have to repeat yourself a lot- because repetition is the mother of learning and because they ask a lot of questions. Knowing this, I'll repeat things at separate times throughout the day and she'll say "I know" or "you told me." I've even told her that she'd hear me repeat myself because what I say is important yet she still acts like she knows everything.
I should also clarify that she really does not know, and it's pretty clear. When I'm talking to her, she gives me this panic-stricken "I'm so lost" look and when I finish talking, she changes her face to a confident look and says she already knew that.
I guess at her old job, according to her, she was kind of a "go-to" person for a lot of things. She just finished training a new person to take her place. You'd think she was training me now!
Her old job was at a very different environment, for one. She worked in a very "rich" city in a very "proper" place with an employee count of approximately sixty. Now, she works in the manufacturing industry, with 1200 people who are dirty, smelly, constantly laid off and at times- not all that bright. She had never had anyone fail a drug test or have a felony. I get that daily. So she doesn't know it all.
She just turned 21 and talks about going out on the weekends (which is fine, but I just feel like I'm so away from that) and drinking. And, get this- on her first day I saw her texting and on her second day I saw her on FaceBook. I barely even check my Yahoo mail when I'm at work, and I've been there for seven months. When I do text, I feel bad, and it rarely happens, yet she's texting on her first day! We were chatting and she interrupted me to show me a FB picture of this amazing cake she had made.
She's driving me nuts and I don't want to be around her- yet she's going to be my velcro for the next six months. I'm thinking that on Monday I'm just going to throw her to the wolves. I mean- she already knows everything, so she'll be just fine- right?
She's just so young (the 'young' part only bothers me because she's annoying) and cocky, and I'm already thinking of ways to teach her lessons. She's entirely too new to be this cocky and this comfortable! My job has a very steep learning curve and there's way more to it that she saw in the first two days. I want so badly for her to get hit with a huge hire, so I can leave her alone to handle it.
All bitterness aside- I'm the boss and she's the new person- so I feel that she does need to be taught a lesson or two.
Anyone have any thoughts?
She's just a know-it-all. I'm going very slowly through a new hire packet to show her the things to look for and she's standing over *my* shoulder, pointing out things the applicant missed. Excuse me?
If you've ever trained someone, you'd know that you do have to repeat yourself a lot- because repetition is the mother of learning and because they ask a lot of questions. Knowing this, I'll repeat things at separate times throughout the day and she'll say "I know" or "you told me." I've even told her that she'd hear me repeat myself because what I say is important yet she still acts like she knows everything.
I should also clarify that she really does not know, and it's pretty clear. When I'm talking to her, she gives me this panic-stricken "I'm so lost" look and when I finish talking, she changes her face to a confident look and says she already knew that.
I guess at her old job, according to her, she was kind of a "go-to" person for a lot of things. She just finished training a new person to take her place. You'd think she was training me now!
Her old job was at a very different environment, for one. She worked in a very "rich" city in a very "proper" place with an employee count of approximately sixty. Now, she works in the manufacturing industry, with 1200 people who are dirty, smelly, constantly laid off and at times- not all that bright. She had never had anyone fail a drug test or have a felony. I get that daily. So she doesn't know it all.
She just turned 21 and talks about going out on the weekends (which is fine, but I just feel like I'm so away from that) and drinking. And, get this- on her first day I saw her texting and on her second day I saw her on FaceBook. I barely even check my Yahoo mail when I'm at work, and I've been there for seven months. When I do text, I feel bad, and it rarely happens, yet she's texting on her first day! We were chatting and she interrupted me to show me a FB picture of this amazing cake she had made.
She's driving me nuts and I don't want to be around her- yet she's going to be my velcro for the next six months. I'm thinking that on Monday I'm just going to throw her to the wolves. I mean- she already knows everything, so she'll be just fine- right?
She's just so young (the 'young' part only bothers me because she's annoying) and cocky, and I'm already thinking of ways to teach her lessons. She's entirely too new to be this cocky and this comfortable! My job has a very steep learning curve and there's way more to it that she saw in the first two days. I want so badly for her to get hit with a huge hire, so I can leave her alone to handle it.
All bitterness aside- I'm the boss and she's the new person- so I feel that she does need to be taught a lesson or two.
Anyone have any thoughts?