The Cubicle Man - Lesson One
I will start a column dedicated to documenting my working experiences and the lessons I have learned from those said experiences, if any. Now that I've dived head first into the corporate world, I find that there are so many lessons out there for me to pick up and I find that I have learned a lot, even from bad experiences. Many times, I learn more from the bad ones. This is not an attempt to write yet another corporate self-help guide, this will be for me, just me, and if others benefit from those lessons of mine, then I'm happy too.
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Lesson One - Listen, Stop Bitching and Just get the job done
I observed that many of my co-workers lack the first part, thrive on the second and drag their feet on the third. This is very evident in our daily meetings. All of them will try their darndest to get their point across but seem to be totally spaced out when another person is talking. When the minutes of the meeting are emailed to them, only then would they start to question this and that, because it is an unwritten rule that the less you know, the less work you have to do. What idiots.
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I think that this boils down to a bad attitude. Anyone with this sort of mindset will never amount to anything. Don't be afraid of challenges. Do what needs to get done. Complaining will only make the process longer. The hardest thing, really, is to listen, to really hear different points of view, to take in different perspectives before deciding on an appropriate course of action. Listening is very hard, even for me, because many times, I will get frustrated with people who speak so much yet spoke nothing at all. Know what I mean? Anyway, I'll reserve that lesson for another day.
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Lesson One - Listen, Stop Bitching and Just get the job done
I observed that many of my co-workers lack the first part, thrive on the second and drag their feet on the third. This is very evident in our daily meetings. All of them will try their darndest to get their point across but seem to be totally spaced out when another person is talking. When the minutes of the meeting are emailed to them, only then would they start to question this and that, because it is an unwritten rule that the less you know, the less work you have to do. What idiots.
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I think that this boils down to a bad attitude. Anyone with this sort of mindset will never amount to anything. Don't be afraid of challenges. Do what needs to get done. Complaining will only make the process longer. The hardest thing, really, is to listen, to really hear different points of view, to take in different perspectives before deciding on an appropriate course of action. Listening is very hard, even for me, because many times, I will get frustrated with people who speak so much yet spoke nothing at all. Know what I mean? Anyway, I'll reserve that lesson for another day.
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