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Personal Narrative: Working At A Local Infiniti Dealership

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During the summer of 2015, I worked at a local Infiniti dealership. My responsibilities included driving the cars that came in for service through the car wash, and organizing the parking lot. When backing up a large truck, I hit a parked car behind me. I got out of the car and realized that there was no major damage except for some small marks on the car that was hit. One of my senior co-workers came over and told me to forget about it and just keep doing my job. I then got back into my car and drove the car through the car wash, but as I was in the car, I could not stop thinking about hitting the other car. I then went to one of the head managers of the service department and told him about the accident. He then inspected the car and had …show more content…

My boss, to my surprise, was very understanding in the whole process and knew that it was a rare mistake. The customer who owned the car was also understanding of the mistake when the supervisor told him. Ultimately, there were no consequences for me speaking up about the accident. It would have been much easier to tell my boss if my co-worker had not talked to me right after. He has been working at the dealership for many years and said that the damages were nothing and that it’s not a big deal. He also mentioned how I was leaving for college in two week, and questioned why I wouldn’t even care. If he had not that said that, I know for sure that I would have immediately walked in the office. His actions, however, do not take away from my action of leaving to go wash another car. The longer time passed, the harder the decision became because I was further removed from the action occurring. Although the situation may have seen minor to others, like my coworker, I ultimately decided that the right thing to do was tell someone who would act on the situation. Today, I am glad I did not follow the status- quo, and act based on my ethical values. In my future jobs, I will be more likely to be proactive about a mistake because of this learning

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