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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 54373" data-attributes="member: 99"><p><em>Oh</em>, yeah - gonna have to pull up them big-girl panties! :coffee: I know it will be better for her, and better for me as well. She's never really had employees before, I don't think. At least, not any that stayed more than a week or so. She cries at the drop of a hat, too. </p><p></p><p> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm not sure what you mean by: "I'll set her [the new employee] up so that whoever she hires will have an idea of what she wants. Which is a heck of a lot more than I had when I started." </div></div> </p><p></p><p>When I came, there was no job description and she never taught me a thing. She had me typing up training documents and setting up powerpoint presentations for a couple of weeks, which I'm really good at, and didn't teach me how to do anything else. She didn't tell me what else she wanted me to accomplish. It was clear that she wanted me to do something else, but I didn't know what it was.</p><p></p><p>Then about two weeks in, she started coming up to me with insurance claim forms that I had never seen before (not to mention, I had never seen <em>any</em> of <em>their</em> insurance claim forms) and handing them to me and saying "OK, I'm gonna test you on this one, it's really complicated. What are you going to do with it?" Huh? This is training? </p><p></p><p>She'd tell me to set up classes for people, listing their boss, and not tell me who their boss was. She'd just say "I'll let you figure that out" and walk off, like that was teaching me something. She'd never showed me anything other than a phone list, and when I made her show me, it took her about ten minutes to fluff her way through the internet to figure it out. I finally told her one day that I didn't know what to do with something I had never seen before, and asked if she would show me once so that I didn't have to guess. Her response was "Well, then you'll <em>never</em> make it in the insurance business" and walked off. Funnily enough, I never <em>wanted</em> to make it in the insurance business!</p><p></p><p> :wink: </p><p></p><p>I'll at least get a job description to the new person that explains when certain registrations need to be filed, where to find information that she will need online, who to call in case of a particular question, etc... Without it, there's no chance anyone will last any amount of time with her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 54373, member: 99"] [i]Oh[/i], yeah - gonna have to pull up them big-girl panties! [img]:coffee:[/img] I know it will be better for her, and better for me as well. She's never really had employees before, I don't think. At least, not any that stayed more than a week or so. She cries at the drop of a hat, too. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm not sure what you mean by: "I'll set her [the new employee] up so that whoever she hires will have an idea of what she wants. Which is a heck of a lot more than I had when I started." </div></div> When I came, there was no job description and she never taught me a thing. She had me typing up training documents and setting up powerpoint presentations for a couple of weeks, which I'm really good at, and didn't teach me how to do anything else. She didn't tell me what else she wanted me to accomplish. It was clear that she wanted me to do something else, but I didn't know what it was. Then about two weeks in, she started coming up to me with insurance claim forms that I had never seen before (not to mention, I had never seen [i]any[/i] of [i]their[/i] insurance claim forms) and handing them to me and saying "OK, I'm gonna test you on this one, it's really complicated. What are you going to do with it?" Huh? This is training? She'd tell me to set up classes for people, listing their boss, and not tell me who their boss was. She'd just say "I'll let you figure that out" and walk off, like that was teaching me something. She'd never showed me anything other than a phone list, and when I made her show me, it took her about ten minutes to fluff her way through the internet to figure it out. I finally told her one day that I didn't know what to do with something I had never seen before, and asked if she would show me once so that I didn't have to guess. Her response was "Well, then you'll [i]never[/i] make it in the insurance business" and walked off. Funnily enough, I never [i]wanted[/i] to make it in the insurance business! [img]:wink:[/img] I'll at least get a job description to the new person that explains when certain registrations need to be filed, where to find information that she will need online, who to call in case of a particular question, etc... Without it, there's no chance anyone will last any amount of time with her. [/QUOTE]
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