Post by ouchy on May 23, 2006 0:06:41 GMT -5
Because I quit my job!
I thought I was doing a good job, considering I only got trained for 3 days, when everyone else had been trained for at least 3 to 4 weeks! I'd been finishing alllll of my work and the work of another girl and doing filing for 2 groups. I had once again completed all of my work for the day, and I was thinking that maybe my job wasn't so bad after all...when all of the sudden, the BOSS walked up to me and asked me how I was doing. I told him that I was fine, thanks. He then asked me to join him in his office. When I followed him to his office, I saw that the girl I worked under and her supervisor were both in his office ...so right away, that couldn't be good (neither liked me)!
He told me that he had been informed that I'd been having trouble multi-tasking. He then asked me why that might be. I tried to explain that I've been doing a good job, considering that I had to learn most everything on my own, when everyone else is trained for 3 to 4 weeks, and I had a mere 3 days. He just kept pointing out weaknesses, and so I told him that I never got any positive feedback, just negative feedback. The only way that I would know if I had done something right was if I didn't get a negative e-mail on it. Annnd, I was just receiving negative feedback from the first week I started working in my new position---a month and a half ago! ...I started crying (dangit!!! old brain injury causing me to cry!).
The supervisor said something about how I read things she writes in e-mails "differently"....to which I was thinking in my mind, "If she could write a logical statement, maybe I wouldn't have had a problem!" I didn't even know that I had read anything "incorrectly," because I read it exactly how she had typed it, and come to find out, I wasn't the only one who read it like that! Grrrrrrrrr!
I also think that my work ethic was too high...I know that sounds weird, but I gave an honest day's work, and I didn't goof off to join in on the daily 15 to 20 minute American Idol discussion in which all of the girls participated. I just didn't fit it. It felt like it was a repeat of high school. If you didn't fit in with the crowd, people would try to bring you down (Oh...and the office was filled with 30-some girls and only 1 boy...I don't like all of the competition between girls.). That really sucks, too. I was a loyal, hard-working employee.
Anyway, I thought about it, and the turn-over rate is soooooooooooooooooooooooo high! In the less than three months that I was there, they lost about 6 or 7 people! Some didn't even have a clue they were going to get fired, and a majority left on their own. I told the boss later in the day that I had decided to quit. I apologized for not giving a 2 week notice, but I figured that it would be for the best for both parties, as I obviously was going to be incapable of training someone if my performance had been sub-par.
Sorry for this long rant and disordered post. As you may have read from an earlier post, I've taken some headache medicine that has made me groggy! Thanks for reading. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I find a good job, preferably dealing w/ science and not doing something I dislike, and especially not working w/ a ton of cliquish girls!!!
Hugs to everyone!
~Ouchy
I thought I was doing a good job, considering I only got trained for 3 days, when everyone else had been trained for at least 3 to 4 weeks! I'd been finishing alllll of my work and the work of another girl and doing filing for 2 groups. I had once again completed all of my work for the day, and I was thinking that maybe my job wasn't so bad after all...when all of the sudden, the BOSS walked up to me and asked me how I was doing. I told him that I was fine, thanks. He then asked me to join him in his office. When I followed him to his office, I saw that the girl I worked under and her supervisor were both in his office ...so right away, that couldn't be good (neither liked me)!
He told me that he had been informed that I'd been having trouble multi-tasking. He then asked me why that might be. I tried to explain that I've been doing a good job, considering that I had to learn most everything on my own, when everyone else is trained for 3 to 4 weeks, and I had a mere 3 days. He just kept pointing out weaknesses, and so I told him that I never got any positive feedback, just negative feedback. The only way that I would know if I had done something right was if I didn't get a negative e-mail on it. Annnd, I was just receiving negative feedback from the first week I started working in my new position---a month and a half ago! ...I started crying (dangit!!! old brain injury causing me to cry!).
The supervisor said something about how I read things she writes in e-mails "differently"....to which I was thinking in my mind, "If she could write a logical statement, maybe I wouldn't have had a problem!" I didn't even know that I had read anything "incorrectly," because I read it exactly how she had typed it, and come to find out, I wasn't the only one who read it like that! Grrrrrrrrr!
I also think that my work ethic was too high...I know that sounds weird, but I gave an honest day's work, and I didn't goof off to join in on the daily 15 to 20 minute American Idol discussion in which all of the girls participated. I just didn't fit it. It felt like it was a repeat of high school. If you didn't fit in with the crowd, people would try to bring you down (Oh...and the office was filled with 30-some girls and only 1 boy...I don't like all of the competition between girls.). That really sucks, too. I was a loyal, hard-working employee.
Anyway, I thought about it, and the turn-over rate is soooooooooooooooooooooooo high! In the less than three months that I was there, they lost about 6 or 7 people! Some didn't even have a clue they were going to get fired, and a majority left on their own. I told the boss later in the day that I had decided to quit. I apologized for not giving a 2 week notice, but I figured that it would be for the best for both parties, as I obviously was going to be incapable of training someone if my performance had been sub-par.
Sorry for this long rant and disordered post. As you may have read from an earlier post, I've taken some headache medicine that has made me groggy! Thanks for reading. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I find a good job, preferably dealing w/ science and not doing something I dislike, and especially not working w/ a ton of cliquish girls!!!
Hugs to everyone!
~Ouchy