I Didn't Drink the Syrup
Sure wanted to though. I know that Golden Boy and Crazy Girl have pancake stuff at their house, so I gave the syrup to Golden Boy for them to use.
My last day wound up being this past Friday. I trained the new person who got the job I wanted. Most of you have never needed me to teach you anything, but I am telling you, I'm freaking awesome at teaching. If I know something, I can teach it. So please believe me when I say that if you are trained by me, you will know how to do your job.
Unless of course, you're stupid. And have an attitude problem. Which this new employee does. And is. She hid both pretty well the first day. And the second. On the third day though, I noticed she was very negative to assume the worst about clients. And that she asked me how to do things I'd specifically made a point of teaching her how to do.
All through the following week, I listened as she accused a client of being on drugs, another client of being crazy, and asked Office Manager or myself about things she'd already been told. I watched as she deleted 2,200 unread emails that had been sent to Partner. As she was dismissive to a very nice lawyer who rents space in the office. As she broke the color printer. As she had a document rush-delivered by hand to P.O. Box.
My prediction? She won't last. This is not about me not wanting her to succeed. This is about her not paying attention to the details and thinking things through. My prediction is that it will take a month before Partner realizes this is not a normal learning curve.
My last day wound up being this past Friday. I trained the new person who got the job I wanted. Most of you have never needed me to teach you anything, but I am telling you, I'm freaking awesome at teaching. If I know something, I can teach it. So please believe me when I say that if you are trained by me, you will know how to do your job.
Unless of course, you're stupid. And have an attitude problem. Which this new employee does. And is. She hid both pretty well the first day. And the second. On the third day though, I noticed she was very negative to assume the worst about clients. And that she asked me how to do things I'd specifically made a point of teaching her how to do.
All through the following week, I listened as she accused a client of being on drugs, another client of being crazy, and asked Office Manager or myself about things she'd already been told. I watched as she deleted 2,200 unread emails that had been sent to Partner. As she was dismissive to a very nice lawyer who rents space in the office. As she broke the color printer. As she had a document rush-delivered by hand to P.O. Box.
My prediction? She won't last. This is not about me not wanting her to succeed. This is about her not paying attention to the details and thinking things through. My prediction is that it will take a month before Partner realizes this is not a normal learning curve.
Labels: People watching, Temping, Work
posted by Green at 9/07/2010 10:05:00 AM
4 Comments:
Discretely let Partner know that you'd love to come back if they ever need a temp, or more!
Jennie, I'm totally on it.
Maybe it will take 136 days for them to ice her and you can start two weeks later on your 151th day of not working for them. That would be perfect, no?
I once was the fellow-temp (and trainer) of a woman who came into the position with awesome credentials. She'd been the manager and co-writer of lots o' stuff. Except, looking back, I think she must have been 99.99998% manager and a miniscule (if that much) writer.
She was complete crap at doing the job, and often got semi-postal if you tried to correct her. But what left me in awe was her manager-schmoozing skills. Didn't matter if she had any reason to approach the manager in question, she'd find an excuse to slip into their office and schmooze with them about absolutely nothing for a good quarter of an hour.
Y'know, if she hadn't had the tendency to go postal when anyone tried to point out a mistake, sh have oozed her way into a permanent position. She excelled at schmoozing.
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