My Experience At My Job

I’m leaving for work and trying to find co-workers who can take the rest of my shift, so I won’t be late for class. Everybody that I try to call won’t pick up their phone. Luckily, my best friend Brooklyn picked up her phone. I told her that I have finals and that I can’t work that last hour, so I asked could she take it ; she did.

I worked at a wholesale nursery, I had known the owners granddaughter from school and she said she could get me a job. In the first month it was great, I was working with her and another friend of ours and we had a good time doing whatever needed being done. It went downhill quickly. First our friend, Bryam, went to Florida to a soccer camp and I knew this would change things a little but I didn’t think a whole lot of it. After another couple of weeks the owners’ granddaughter, Madison, suddenly started sporadically missing work. I asked her just in passing what she was up to and she told me often “just hanging” or “at a swim meet”, she was on a swim team. At first I wasn’t that bothered. I figured she just wanted a break, laboring at the nursery in the summer heat was certainly work, and she dealt with it all year long. Needless to say, things didn’t improve. I was stuck almost every day doing the work of two people, which in turn cut my output in half. Talking to Madison’s mom one day, I discovered the swim team only met twice a week and even when they did it was in the morning before work even started. This surprised me a lot, I thought I knew Madison pretty well and I never figured she’d hang me out to dry doing both of our jobs. Several times I tried to subtly explain the situation, texting her in the middle of the day saying “man work is killing me today, I have to trim up

Her and I were on a first name basis the first time she told me to eat more saying if I ate more meat then maybe I would have some on my bones, I was used to hearing this and just laughed it off. Every time after that she would make a progressively worse comment about my weight, comments such as “if you don't start eating your pants are going to fall right off” after she spotted me tugging the pants higher on my body or when she saw me darting into the back room to eat my subway and yelling a quick “better be some meat on that sandwich” then finding me after break to ask if I had eaten it all. It was becoming annoying and tiring. I had enough and and one day she came in to buy her usual pound of candy for the week then made her comment as I was ringing her up, I stopped what I was doing and looked up at her and said “I think it's funny you tell me that I need to gain weight but every time you come in here you look like you've gained 5 pounds since the last time we saw you, which by the way was about four days ago. Don't think we haven't noticed that your sweatpants have become almost leggings on you.” That was what got me fired. Although, I told everyone it was because it was a seasonal job, which it was only the season wasn't over and my job there

I asked her was she going to rotate the hours between the third shift staff. She said that she was going to rotate the hours so that everyone would have a chance to get eighty hours on third shift but she never did. The other staff on my shift continued to get eighty hours while I continuously only got sixty-four hours. Since we have been suspended it is rumored that Chantel has called all other homes laughing and bragging about how she caught two third shift workers sleep and that she fired them, which she is referring to myself and Chasity. She has also stated that she is going to clean house and get rid of all the old staff and replace them with her friends and family, and run this home how it is supposed to be ran. Chantel has also told other staff that as soon as she gets her LPN/RN license she is going to

She then turned around and pointed at a lady that was approaching the counter. I then turned around and asked her if she was the manager, at that point the lady said, “Her” and pointed at another lady that was walking with a gentlemen down the opposite aisle. Since, I was tired of the situation, I walked across the aisle and I asked the lady if she was a manager. I apologized for interrupting her conversation with the gentlemen; however, I informed her that I had been waiting for over 30 minutes for some assistance. She then walked down with me and she cut the material for me. I expressed my frustration to the manager as numerous employees knew that I needed assistance, yet no one came to assist me. She apologized, and immediately tried to find out who was responsible for that area.

▪ Write down what happened. Write down the date, time and place of the incident, as soon as possible. Include what was said and who was there. Keep a copy of these notes at home. They will be useful if you decide to file a complaint with your company or to take legal action.

One morning at work I was confronted by a staff member called * Amy who began to yell at me. *Amy has always put me down, bullied me. I was working a day shift with *Amy. She wouldn’t talk to me or help me transfer a resident who wanted to have their shower. This continued all day, the Registered Nurse was helping me transfer and attend to personal care as *Amy refused to help me.

I think we all have seen these behaviors in the workplace in different forms, such as unfair work assignments, verbal abuse, or talking behind ones back. Consequently, I inform the one on the receiving end to always show the person respect by first confronting them with the issue, if the behavior continues, then they should speak with their manager.

02/24/17 - Stepmom approached the front desk and requested an appointment for her stepdaughter who has a UTI. Katti tells Melanie that she cannot bring her in because we do not have an authorization. Melanie asked me if there was anything we could do and I said yes. We needed a verbal from dad, and two staff members must document and sign as witnesses. Katti immediately becomes defensive. Melanie came to me and said she felt attacked. Katti also instructed Melanie not to ask me any more question.

I was pretty scared because I did not know what was going to happen. There was also a suspension paper with my name on it on his desk. He asked why I left at 10:30AM when I was off at 4:00PM. I told that that was what the schedule in the crew room showed. We both walked over to the crew room, and sure enough, that is what the schedule showed. It turned out that there was a problem in the system again. Luckily, I was let off the leash. Unfortunately, he suspended the kitchen manager for 3 days since she let me go home early. They were short people and it was busy so they were struggling that day. I tried calling them multiple times, and they did not pick up. I tried texting co-workers, but they never texted back. Therefore, I am happy I did not get suspended from work, sadly the kitchen manager did not check the schedule to see what time I actually was off. Hopefully nothing like this ever happens

On Saturday Carly called me while I was working in the parking booth to see if there was anyone to cover her shift because she had a stomach bug and couldn’t keep anything down. I gave her the names and numbers of some people she could try calling to get her shift covered but she wasn’t able to get a hold of anyone. I knew Kristen was trying to get a hold of Angelina to see if she could leave early that day and with Carly not being able to come in I asked if she had heard back from Angelina and if she could stay for the remainder of her shift. This is when she started saying things such as “This is why I hate working Saturdays because everything is a disaster” it seemed almost like a panic attack. I told her if she didn’t want to stay Melissa

So to start off, I'm really sorry. There is a bag of potatoes in the sink (the sink is clean the potatoes are in a bag in the sink). The floor does not look good at all (Lisa told Anthony to mop the floor). I Sent Rob home and told him no to come back ( He said he would "just leave" in detail note on desk under deposit slips). I told Lisa she could go home early because she took close to 40min. to finish "cleaning" the shake machine (had to wipe it down the pumps ect.), her tasks I told her to do before she left were the following, Clean back wall ( I had to redo),  put potatoes in the cooler , count drawers and paperwork. Everything else in the store should be fine, I washed all of the garbage's, bleached the drains, washed the butler's, wiped

“Tell me and I may forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Learning takes place in many aspects, but for me I learned so much by my experiences. From my first job all the way to my current job. My experiences make me who I am today; After high school I went to college and graduated with an associates degree in legal studies this is I learned from my law teacher Ms. Campbell that " you won 't know the law by memorization but by Application" and that stuck with me all these years and I apply that fundamental principle to life.

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing." says Phil Jackson, a former American professional basketball player. People always whine about how their first job experience was terrible and there’s only one reason which is not getting enough amount of money for their work. I think people need to think that job is not always about money as I discovered from my first job.

I would have improved this practicum by making sure my supervisors treated me more like an intern instead of a paid employee. My practicum was different than a traditional internship because I was hired as a seasonal employee, who also happened to be getting practicum credit by working at Tweetsie. I think that my supervisors looked at me as a normal employee and because of that I wasn’t able to get a variety of experiences. Despite the fact that I excelled at my job and took on more responsibilities I was never able to learn why processes or rules were put in place. For example, I learned how to process groups coming through the park only because they come through the ticket office. I would have loved to spend a day with the Group Sales Manager and watched how she did her job. I would have also loved to spend a day with different departments learning why they were important and what activities were specific to their departments. Part of that could have been partially my fault for not asking to be shown more things or shadow other people but I also think my supervisor could have made more of an initiative. Overall, I’d say that this practicum could have been made better by utilizing all of the departments and skills throughout the whole park instead of sticking to just my assigned department.