I get it now… I really do get it now—Mari explained it to me perfectly! Even though it is far too late to really put what I have learned into practice; I feel I have learned a life lesson. Allow me to start from the beginning:
The program I was put into was to allow college students to gain experience for being an accountant, so Volt offered that. Here’s the thing, she wanted me to gain work experience and to at least have a hold of something in my life as well as some money for college. With me so far? Well, when I went in, they didn’t really understand what it meant to be a college graduate; they think we know EVERYTHING… we don’t, we know more than them yet, they are experts in a very small spectrum of what world they live in where they work. Allow me to simplify what I am intending to say; we go to school we learn calculus, English, etc. etc. and not including what we specialize our studies in. Therefore, we know more on a general spectrum- we are able to think. They on the other hand don’t have that, but they are experts in their field if they have been there for years or studied it in school. Now that we are all caught up, I found if I did things my way, I would have succeeded much more likely. If I had a manual or could ask questions or have my entire if statements answered, I would have been as adept as my co-workers. I take things into a logical perspective, if I get to point C with everything I need, I am done. Right? Yes. However, the downside, that they have a customized system which can make it difficult for anyone to get to point C “properly”.
Rus made a good point today. He mentioned as we were walking away from the shopping district back to the office that he realized they did not have cubicles. Everything was out in the open- no one had a sense of privacy. He stated that they liked to micromanage, and many are not comfortable with that. It makes them feel inadequate or that they cannot be trusted. He was right, it made perfect sense. Observe your surroundings and find what is missing. It will likely shock the hell out of you!
I sure as hell am not an idiot or slow learner, if the teacher sucks, then it’s the teacher. I am set for any scenario as much as my instructor has taught me. And that goes for anyone.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
...the sweet laters
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Hmmmm that's very true. I've worked in retail ever since HS and I know how pretty much all big businesses work now. It's really disappointing the practices and the things you observe with all the experience.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was looking for the source entry as to why you were losing/ leaving your job and I must have glossed over it. Enlighten me?
Well, they said I lost it because they had lost funding for the program. However I found out that I made a lot of mistakes in the program that kind of cost the company some money. Now, in my defense, I had no idea of these mistakes and they gave me these weird deadlines to an amount of work which made it stressful since it wasn't my field of study-- hell no one could be prepared for it. Nevertheless, it was on the stature that I didn't do my job well until the end. But I found out, that its a difficult job because there are so many variables that make it difficult. Its a blessing in disguise that I was relieved.
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