Are You Afraid to Keep Your Job?

Last Friday was a really good day.  I did a lot of work and did some hiring and some training.  I got a lot done which I'm really happy about.  It is cutting into my job search but at least I'm beginning to get all of the goals I need to get done.

I'm still having a problem with my trainee following up on all the on boarding she needs to do.  But maybe she's too busy or maybe I'm giving her too much work.  I'm not sure.  I'm going to have to talk to her.

I have Saturday off.  Sunday early morning, I worked at a health food store.  Or rather one of those vitamin health stores.  It was really nice.  I'd never worked at one of those before and it's my kind of place to work.  Health is really important to me.

When I drove the manager of the job back, we have conversations back and forth.  He came up with an interesting question to me.  We had talked about one of the managers who quit on Saturday suddenly.  He was a manager who our boss was really pushing for because he had a good rapport with people and customers.  I don't know what happened but I got a text saying that this manager quit.  Unfortunately, the manager I was with, was very jealous about the attention this other manager had.  He really took it to heart, feeling like this other manager was being favored by all the other managers.  When this manager heard that the other one quit, I'm sure he felt very vindicated as if everything turned out right for him.  Personally, it doesn't matter to me.  All that matters is that he has a job still and that he does his work, and that he does his work so that our customers and our employees are happy with him.

So one of the questions he asked me or the comment he made was that my trainee was saying something to the effect that she likes the hiring managing responsibility more than a manager.  Now, I've never heard back from her and to me, she's the kind of person that will just do anything you ask her.  This is the kind of person who proves herself by taking on any responsibility.  Whether or not she said that, I don't know.  But I don't care.

I'm the kind of person who thinks that if you are after my job, I shouldn't be afraid of you. I should be the kind of person who feels that training you to take my job would be a great skill that I have.  I don't think I've ever been afraid of someone taking my job.  Even in this economy, I can prove myself.  And if I can train people to do my exact job, that means a person to be cross trained to do anything else.  Besides, I'm looking for another job anyways.  It would be more advantageous to the company to be able to train someone to do my work well enough so when it is time for me to leave, I will leave them without a problem.

I love training.  I love helping people.  So I should not fear anybody wanting to do my job.  Eventually one day I'll be too old to do my job.  Somebody's going to have to learn how to do it.

Today, I spent a few hours at the employment development Department in our area.  I was under the impression that all that was going to do was do interviews.  I was ready for that.  I was not aware that I was going to do a whole presentation and then only have three hours to interview about 20 people.  I got through all the people, which I didn't think was 20 people.  I think it was more like 12 or 15.  But my presentation was in front of about 50 people.  So I had to think fast on my feet.  I do presentations every day for work so wasn't a big deal to stand in front of the people.  I just felt that I wasn't prepared and that I could've done a better job with a slideshow presentation or something like that.

It was enough for people who wanted to get a job.  The nice thing about today was that there were more people who were my age than the younger people.  Not that that's a problem, but these days people influence others to say what's on their mind.  There are no reservations about hurting another person, or sounding stupid by condemning others.

I don't mind people sharing their opinions but just as I have an opinion about something so does everyone else.  And people should not be condemning people for their opinions.  It bothers me when anything I say can be taken the wrong way.  It does and it has.

I have a very busy week and a lot of hiring and training to do this week.