Once Upon an Employee

My mom, college career counselor from IUN, IU SPEA Career Development Office, and many others of different experiences related to circles of career avenues will share with you the natures of change and growth as you go through it yourself to focus on your straight path so to speak.  Years will pass depending on your choices and thought process which sounds cut and dry because it is so to write.  "Live through this with me and I swear that I will die for you."  Courtney Love, Doll Parts. 

That song sums up the walk of the workforce in a artistic sense of the 90's sped up into the millenium.  (awkward moment)  ok back to mom.  Yes,  moving home can rip you right out of the clouds and into reality and that is vital for maturity and balance maybe for some.  Lists and lists of employers to apply to can get very tedious at times, and an interview and slip through your fingers if you decide to do one small thing.  I've driven myself up a wall wondering too much about that. Cutting corners is well known to areas of life that maybe need to be cut such as too many job applications.  For instance, I began to notice coffee stains on my job applications, and speedy hand writing.  I've misplaced myjob references many times along with job adresses, and salaries. 

The consistancy has been in my SSC, name, education, reason for leaving employers, and signature.  Usually I will write open for salary, and start of date or schedule listing.  Many areas have been constants in my job applications such as these areas along with work authorization yes and no Q's. 


The winds were cool and the skies were gray in Texas the week grandfathers funeral was being held.  The companies Human Resources Department  allowed the call for a potential employee to get a chance of an interview.  The interview was short after a handful of phone calls to the HR that ranged for a couple months with several other instructions from them to be followed about the resume and interview set up times to come in.

The moment the interview was approved the relief was coloring in the pale face of an eager employee whose heart was for the Lord.  Everything flashed before the new employees eyes the one out of three jobs held in good chances for hire finally brought her in with open arms and training!  It was all so fast suddenly and the new employee felt somehow stronger and never more thankful.

Back home for one and half months another employee with potential is thanked for her hard work, brought in for evaluations to areas of where to be improved and is recognized as hard working and with strong scores in certain areas of the position and other areas needing work with only two more months of evaluation before they decide the trained employee is ready and grown in work performance improvement.

Month two begins and many new problems arise and the employees uncle dies in Texas. The death effects the employee more than imagined and work performance at the moment she is to be improving wanes and slips powerlessly through the new trainee and sadly the employee feels more and more frightened and discouraged keeping hope for getting through another week just another week closer to finishing her improvements as new training tasks are being brought in her efforts to show learning and eagerness to improve her areas that need correction.

One one shift when the family come home from an uncles funeral the family is then effected a few days upon return that a job is terminated.  A missed area of improvement was the reason for the once eager and quickly waning employee who had no idea that those little areas of the day such as following the rules, communication, and possible keeping the washed uniform and lunches going consistently were so important for maybe just one more week with no excuses.