Work drama

It’s been a while since I last posted anything substantial, and only now I realise how much I actually have to say! I’ll catch up in parts, I don’t want to bore anyone to death – I have been bored to death before, it’s not nice. Last time I was bored to death was in a ‘Responsible Persons Training’ organised by my lovely company, where I learned about Legionella (bacteria transmitted in water droplets coming from lakes and rivers but sometimes found in old plumbing systems), asbestos (that day I realised I had been exposed to it as a child, so give it another 15-20 years and I could develop a lung cancer. Not funny.) and Health and Safety Act. I didn’t fall asleep only because the guy was actually quite funny and did the whole presentation pretty well. Normally, all the presentations/trainings I have sat in have been so boring and so poorly delivered that I just can’t bear it. Mind you, I got the best training in that – on Temple Square. And gave, let’s see… I was there for a total of about 14 months, gave about 12 tours a week, that’s roughly 61 weeks x 12 = 732 presentations. That’s just the main tours, add Humanitarian Centre ones and Welfare Square and mini presentations while contacting, plus training new sisters… shall we say about 1000? I think that’s fair. So I think I can be picky, can’t I?

But I was going to talk about work. I had some issues here from the beginning (I started this in January). It just seemed like no one cared, what I was doing, where I was sitting, what equipment I got, how much training I got… So everything I learned, I learned because I kept pestering everyone around me with questions. And then I have my one-to-one with my line manager, thinking, here we’re going to set some targets (we call them KPI’s here – Key performance Indicators) but we sit down and she starts to evaluate me… and I go wait a minute, that’s not right. How can we be evaluating goals we had never set? She gave me like 96%, almost 100% but not quite… So I get out of the meeting, mad as hell, and think to myself, oh no you don’t! This is not how you treat Emilia!!! (seriously) I asked everyone I thought was competent and finally went to my manager’s manager.
At the same time, my colleague Lee had a similar problem and kicked up a lot more stink in the meeting itself. Being a lady I’m a bit more classy, so went about it differently :-p
Once I had all the information I needed, I had a nice little chat with the Big Boss. She apologised and gave me 100%.
Since then, everyone has been SO much nicer to everyone else! Pays off to kick up some stink sometimes, doesn’t it?
;-)