Great expectations
December 2nd, 2011By Junne Grajales
Studies have shown that 84% of new hires will disappoint their employers in the first year on the job. Here are the reasons why:
Attitude plays an integral role in being generally contented. It’s how one sees and does things to truly convey change. Meeting the deadlines, demolishing the pitiful “Filipino time,” and actually showing up when needed should be innate characteristics for those who are apt to work. It symbolizes one’s respect for the craft and for oneself. One’s work ethic is a representation of how one would like to be treated. It affirms that we are mature; that we tremendously deserve this job opportunity that others would die for.
Distractions are unpreventable. The social media sites tempt us with a buffet of gossip and allow us to sneak a peek into other people’s adventures, or lack of it. These diversions could and would consume our morality if we allow it. People tend to value it more because it is a good enough alibi to rely on materialism and nosiness to substitute for what we used to believe in. Such mannerisms should be done elsewhere. Most of us aren’t getting paid to update, like, and view daily.
There is a thin line between one’s personal and professional life. People can’t help but make things truly their own because sometimes people need to pour their hearts into their body of work to make it real. But one needs to strike a balance between professionalism and otherwise because it is crucial to be detached from work somewhat because at the end of the day, it is just a job. We need to use our brain every now and again to endure encounters. One would lose if one takes things personally.
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Having no inspiration to work is just pitiful. It is really sad when one’s boss doesn’t like giving out compliments. It should be a positive-negative-positive sandwich wherein the employer will acknowledge one’s existence, at least, criticize, and then alter that criticism into a constructive one for encouragement, and for humanity’s sake. Laziness, at times, is the result of not being motivated. It should be an employer’s imperative to boost their employees’ morale every once in a while. Employees are not asking to be praised but whatever happened to basic etiquettes such as “Thank you for submitting on time,” or “Thank you for still being alive!”? It’s not always the employees’ fault.
The pressures we instil on ourselves are sometimes more than we honestly deserve. We tend to think too much about what other people will say. We need to learn that we can never please everyone. The cancer of never letting go of what we are used to is an ignorant bliss that is just utterly unhealthy. What we did was good enough; we are, in fact, good enough.
Failure does not define us. We always have alternatives because as Charles Swindoll, a famous Christian author, once put it, “I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”