I confess I was unprofessional and I apologized over and over again! At that moment, it didn’t seem like a big deal but when I had to deal with it, I was embarrassed. The 5 minutes it usually takes me to befriend my neighbours took 45 minutes! I can hear my mobile ringing from a distance but I was too caught up to go get it.
The guy I was supposed to meet left and I can’t blame him one bit! I received an email stating that their representative was on time, but I wasn’t available. I apologized for wasting his time and efforts and rescheduled to Sunday!
I hate it when people are not professional, wasting my time, so I am so annoyed that I did that to someone else. I hate it when I spend time in useless meeting discussing useless stuff, when all questions can be answered by simply reading the damn document submitted! And yet here I am doing the same exact thing that I loathe to another.
We had a failed hard disk that needed to be replaced in one of our servers, the technician needed to install a software, first thing I asked do you need to restart the server after installation. “No”, came his sure answer.
See when installing a software, sometimes you need to restart the server or the newly installed application won’t start or won’t run properly, some software installations will disconnect all active share session, so you need to be aware of those incidents.
What do you know, we had to restart the server. I inhaled and exhaled before saying, my first question was, do we need to restart the server because this is a file server that we cannot simply restart!!!
I receive calls from people in which my answer should be read the manual we prepared with the screen shots I spent hours preparing, but NO they need to hear your voice reading out the steps and they follow! I don’t understand this. Am I asking for too much here?
But I thought of it as punishment for my un-professionalism today. I beat up myself a lot, I know it’s just work, but I think I do this in my life too, when I am the one who did others wrong. I need to loosen up, it’s easier said than done.
#1 by MBH on July 17, 2009 - 12:35 AM
It’s not your fault for not being on time. Yes, it’s frustrating, but the problem is that your crowd were too lazy to read prepared documents about what they want to know in the silly meeting.
Honestly, I would’ve just emailed them to read the bloody manual/document/presentation.
I’m kind of glad that I’m reading about your work-life and what frustrates you. Glad that there are others like me out there!
Kind of off topic: Would you change your character to fit into the company’s environment? (If your reply is longer than 2 lines, then save it for later
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#2 by Bloggylife on July 17, 2009 - 12:43 AM
MBH, actually it was my fault, I told him to come 11:30 AM and I wasn’t there, so the guy was on time but I wasn’t
Even if I wanted to, I can’t. It would be so much easier if I just went along, but my stupid self rebels and still holds to my silly no-one-gives-a-damn-but-me beliefs! Over 4 years working and still can’t fit in. Everyone is waiting for me to give it all up, they tease me at work for that!
Does that make sense ??
#3 by MBH on July 17, 2009 - 12:56 AM
4 years!!! I quit at the closest chance possible! :p
It was either I change myself and become a miserable frustrated worker, or get out and find/make something better.
#4 by Marzouq on July 19, 2009 - 12:55 PM
I dont think u should beat yourself up! U made a genuine effort to make sure you don’t do that but sometimes it happens!
#5 by Bashar on July 19, 2009 - 5:49 PM
Happens to the best of us. Most important is you know it and work on fixing it
I recall doing testing with two banks at same time. Hang up with one, 5 mins with another
. That was really lame!