there once was a girl named tyne
My day started out like any other work day. I actually had work to do. I was getting somewhere. Then at about 3:00 I ran out of fun stuff to do and resorted to doing some stapling of papers mumbo jumbo. While I was waiting on my coworker to sort through some papers to give me my boss yelled at me for not working. I looked to my coworker to say something in my defense, but she came up with some pre=step to my job I was waiting on. I didn't defend myself either. I just kept my mouth shut and got to work. But, boy, was I heated. It's a big personal slap to talk to me like I'm a kid who needs to clean their room. I stewed for awhile until right around 5:00 when my boss called me into her office.
Now keep in mind, one my first day I never got briefed on what my job actually was. My job has so far consisted of small remedial tasks such as filing and copying sprinkled with some larger tasks such as payroll configurations and entrying, but that's only because the girl who normally does that is on vacation.
So my boss calls me in and I just knew I was going to get yelled at for talkig too much or not working fast enough or something like that. Nope. Not at all. Earlier during the day we were talking about the fundraiser our compnay does every year. And one of our coworkers also volunteers for Jerry's Kids. I asked, "Oh, is that the ugly guy on the wall?" (his thank you card with a dumb picture of him smiling was on the wall) The other girls looked mortified and laughed saying, "He's special, you can't say that." I said i didn't care I still thought he looked ridiculous. I had also made comments about the workers in the landscaping/construction industry and how they get into the industry because they think they won't have to use their brains. We have received THOUSANDS of invoices with no COMPANY NAME or INVOICE NUMBER or anything on them. We have different jobs we do and when we receive invoices for things we have bought or machines we have rented we put the cost of that on our customer. Then we charge then extra. Thst is how we make money. How can we make money if we don't know who to pay? So I was simply talking about the adsurdity of it all.
Well back to my conversation with my boss. She began to tell me that I was being naive and told me I had been living in a "White World". She told me that with my bad attitude I would not last at the company. I was shocked. I had mostly been joking around, and I really felt that the foreman didn't even think about things on our end. The accounting department works as a team, but the employees at the company, all ten offices work together as a team whether we ever meet these people or not. When I send out an invoice I need to think about the person who is going to see that invoice. What are they going to need to know? Uh...a date, a total price, the company name...these are simple things yet these morons just scribble something on a piece of paper and expect us to decode it.
I know you might not understand. But nonetheless, it was a humbling conversation. I was trying to keep my voice from quivering. I've never had a real boss before. But I used it as a forum to talk to her some of the issues I had with the job and she seemed open to making it a part-time job if need be. She assumed I needed 40 hours and benefits. I kept thinking, if she would have sat me down and talked to me...she would know these things. But she assumes. I guess I made a lot of assumptions too. I judged her too. She was right about some of the things she said. She said that I have to watch what I say because for a lot of people this job "brings meaning to their lives". How terrible is that?
Well she ended the conversation saying that I could go home this weekend and never come back, the choice of this job is mine blah blah blah. I really want to ponder over her words and really change my attitude about the job. I admit it hasn't been the greatest.
Now keep in mind, one my first day I never got briefed on what my job actually was. My job has so far consisted of small remedial tasks such as filing and copying sprinkled with some larger tasks such as payroll configurations and entrying, but that's only because the girl who normally does that is on vacation.
So my boss calls me in and I just knew I was going to get yelled at for talkig too much or not working fast enough or something like that. Nope. Not at all. Earlier during the day we were talking about the fundraiser our compnay does every year. And one of our coworkers also volunteers for Jerry's Kids. I asked, "Oh, is that the ugly guy on the wall?" (his thank you card with a dumb picture of him smiling was on the wall) The other girls looked mortified and laughed saying, "He's special, you can't say that." I said i didn't care I still thought he looked ridiculous. I had also made comments about the workers in the landscaping/construction industry and how they get into the industry because they think they won't have to use their brains. We have received THOUSANDS of invoices with no COMPANY NAME or INVOICE NUMBER or anything on them. We have different jobs we do and when we receive invoices for things we have bought or machines we have rented we put the cost of that on our customer. Then we charge then extra. Thst is how we make money. How can we make money if we don't know who to pay? So I was simply talking about the adsurdity of it all.
Well back to my conversation with my boss. She began to tell me that I was being naive and told me I had been living in a "White World". She told me that with my bad attitude I would not last at the company. I was shocked. I had mostly been joking around, and I really felt that the foreman didn't even think about things on our end. The accounting department works as a team, but the employees at the company, all ten offices work together as a team whether we ever meet these people or not. When I send out an invoice I need to think about the person who is going to see that invoice. What are they going to need to know? Uh...a date, a total price, the company name...these are simple things yet these morons just scribble something on a piece of paper and expect us to decode it.
I know you might not understand. But nonetheless, it was a humbling conversation. I was trying to keep my voice from quivering. I've never had a real boss before. But I used it as a forum to talk to her some of the issues I had with the job and she seemed open to making it a part-time job if need be. She assumed I needed 40 hours and benefits. I kept thinking, if she would have sat me down and talked to me...she would know these things. But she assumes. I guess I made a lot of assumptions too. I judged her too. She was right about some of the things she said. She said that I have to watch what I say because for a lot of people this job "brings meaning to their lives". How terrible is that?
Well she ended the conversation saying that I could go home this weekend and never come back, the choice of this job is mine blah blah blah. I really want to ponder over her words and really change my attitude about the job. I admit it hasn't been the greatest.