One and a half years ago, I could be described as shy, awkward, and quiet. This was when I applied for a job as a cashier at Wegmans. I was offered the job and my first few months working there made me dread the weekends I had spend on my feet for six hours at a time. I did not have any friends at work. I came in the latest I had to be there and left the soonest I could. When I am on register, my managers tell me when it is time to take my lunch. If I need to step off for minute to run to the bathroom or quench my thirst, I need to ask a manager. Being a cashier is a repetitive job- scan, scan, bag, bag- for four to seven hours at a time. It is easy to get frustrated; customers constantly are rude and moody. A lot of the times customers …show more content…
The lines waiting to be checked out grow long, especially on Sundays before the Eagles’ game. It becomes stressful because I need to go fast to make sure no one is waiting for a long time in my line; however, I need to bag everyone’s items nicely. The one factor that made the job terrible was my managers tracked how many items I bagged per minute and if I did not get a number close to fourteen, the goal number that everyone should have to be the most efficient, my manager would yell at me. I wanted to quit more than anything in the …show more content…
My manager, Michelle, called me on the phone late one night and asked if I wanted a promotion. She told me she thought I would be a great addition to the Knowledge Based Sales team and asked if I wanted to join. The KBS team are the people who hand out food samples and try to get people to buy it. I said yes. That weekend I went to work and met the lady who was in charge of the food samples, Marla, and the five other people who were chosen like me to join the team. They all had outgoing, positive, personas. This juxtaposed my quiet introverted self. My first shift I was paired up with a veteran member of the team. His name was Dylan. He taught me all the sales tactics and all the secrets to the job. He was my first friend at work and he introduced me to all of his friends at work. All the people I met through Dylan are some of the closest friends I have today. Now, I will try to find any excuse I can to go to Wegmans to see my friends. If one of my friends is on lunch when I finish working, I will stay an extra fifteen minutes to talk to them. Having friends at work has made me more outgoing because I will go out of my way to say hello and try to talk to
Running The Front End Day after day, I work at Home Depot. I’ve worked at Home Depot for 6 months. My position is cashier. A few months have gone by and all I do is show up and do my job as a cashier. The cashiers have someone who runs the front end along with every register in the store, and that person is a head cashier.
I could have taken this change in my life as something terrible, tragic, and sad. Instead, I chose to make the most of it and accept it as a new challenge. I began to communicate with as many people as I could and I trained myself to become a more social person. I joined about every sport possible in middle school and made it a goal to become friends with everyone. By moving to Iowa, I evolved from a shy kid into a much more outgoing and adventurous adolescent.
Although I am at times shy and not talkative, I am not a complete introvert. One of the questions they asked on the test was that am I outgoing or sociable. I strongly disagree because I work 60 hours a week and I go to campus four times a week. For five days in a week, I work the night shift, 12 hours straight. Therefore, I do not have the time to be outgoing. Once again, it is not because I don’t want to, it’s because I can’t be outgoing, like how I used to. I do enjoy being with people, participating in social gatherings, and I have full of energy. There are a lot of factors when it comes to this
Today, the most difficult day in my family’s life, we gather to say farewell to our son, brother, fiancé and friend. To those of you here and elsewhere who know Dylan you already are aware of the type of person he was and these words you will hear are already in your memory. To those who were not as fortunate, these words will give you a sense of the type of man he was and as an ideal for which we should strive. My son has been often described as a gentle soul. He was pure of heart and had great sensitivity for the world around him. He had a way with people that made them feel comfortable around him and infected others to gravitate toward him. Dylan exuded kindness and pulled generosity and altruism out from everyone he touched. He was everyone's best friend.
I was shy because I didn’t know anybody. Now I’ve gotten to know the people in my classes, and I’ve learned that they can help me just as I can help them. Because I was homeschooled, I was a little laid back on when to turn in assignments, I just turned them in when I felt like it. At college, I have changed the way I turn in assignments. I have learned that if I turn in my assignments early or on time I have a better chance of getting a higher grade. I have also changed in the way I manage my time, before I started college I would just get out of bed whenever I felt like it. Now I set alarms and different times on when I need to get something
Kroeger, O., Thuesen, J. M., & Rutledge, H. (2002). Type talk at work: How the 16 personality types determine your success on the job. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.
I still went way out of my way and tried to leave a certain lasting impression on them. I perceived the other people in the situation in a number of different ways. First being the customers because in my job customers can make a huge impact and you don’t want to disappoint them. Also, coworkers played a part in how I acted in a situation because coworkers above me I needed to act better than I normally would or with a coworker who had the same status as myself. The attitude I had going into work affected how I acted and how hard I worked because at work I want to seem very professional and hardworking so I would go out of my way to try to be that type of
Jerome became a great friend and mentor to me as I always turned to him to discuss life’s challenges and opportunities.
What aspects of restaurant work are especially challenging to wait staff, and how does Barcelona’s approach to management help employees overcome the downsides of the job? The aspects of restaurant work that is especially challenging to wait staff would be poor management and customer satisfaction. In this profession of being a wait staff in many instances it is very difficult to please everyone one that you serve. The approach that Barcelona’s management took in helping their employees overcome the downsides of their job they gave them the green light in allowing them to do what was right in making the customers experience a happy one. In giving them this freedom, it made the wait staff feel like they were a part of the organization when it came to decision
My professional attitude is similar. I find that I try to communicate well with others and express my interest through body language such as smiling, eye contact, nodding of my head, etc. I do to show that I can be personable and hope to build good relationships on that. Based on my scores, I also show higher scores for Conventional, Dependant, and/or Avoidance. This is true in the sense that sometimes, if I find myself too comfortable in a situation; I tend to become withdrawn in order to protect my well being. I don’t want people to take advantage of me, so I become distant after a certain point. This does cause conflict for me both at work and in my personal affairs.
Giving dirty looks or making a snotty noise when you don't get your way or when you dislike someone is being rude and I'm noticing it more and more everyday. The other day I went out to grab a bite to eat after baseball, it was a fast food restaurant and I decided to go in and order and eat there. As I was making my order, the manager out of all people was being rude. As I was placing my order, she gave me a terrible attitude and rolled her eyes at me multiple times because I was hesitant on what I wanted to get off the menu. I mean, I understand you may not enjoy your job but don't take it out on customers cause its not their fault. After I had gotten my food, she forgot to give me my drink so I asked politely for a cup and rather than just setting it on the counter, she almost threw it on the table at me cause she was so rude. In my mind I wanted to be rude back but I didn’t, but seeing just how rude a manager can be to a customer is mind
McDonalds believe that good customer service is the responsibility of everybody in the company. Every employee has a part to play in providing with a service with best practise found anywhere in the trade.
I started to be more outgoing by changing my verbal and nonverbal communication methods. I looked more people in the eyes and for longer times, that I did before, and I also talked a lot more than I used to. I made myself come out of my shyness to be a very outgoing person who can talk to anyone, and I do talk to anyone and everyone. For example, I have been told by people that I can talk to anyone and everyone. I made myself like that, and it’s a big part of my personality. I also knew that outgoing people go places in life, and I made myself into someone who takes chances and speaks up when something is offered. Falconer explains it perfectly, “If you don’t become outgoing you will miss a huge chunk of the best parts of your life. Social unease and shyness can be crippling character traits. So not only will you miss out on good times but you will miss out on a lot of good opportunities.” (para. 4). If I was the old shy me, then I wouldn’t have all the opportunities that I would have had today. I love talking to people now. It’s probably one of the best things about me, because I can start a conversation with just about everyone, and make sure that I look into their eyes. It makes it seem that I am very interested in what they are saying, and most of the time I am interested in what they are saying. I used to be the kind of person who wouldn’t want to be seen in a big crowd, but now I want to be noticed. I realized that I’d rather be heard,
The best characteristic about me, though, is that I am remarkably well improvising and figuring the situation of everything around me permitting me to fine-tune to my atmosphere. I was able to make many friends, on my first year alone; even though, most were seniors, therefore when it was the close of the school year they all left for substantial goals in their lives. Thinking back to all the enriching and enjoyable times shared with my friends, makes me miss
There are various influences on everyone’s lives while growing up. I believe the greatest of these influences is the neighborhood you grew up in. I grew up in a quite large, welcoming neighborhood. While living in this neighborhood, I was outgoing and remarkably talkative. Making friends became second nature to me. Playing outdoors from sunrise to sundown playing sports or exploring the outdoors with my friends became a daily routine for me. I was outgoing, talkative, and active. I believe this is the result of the neighborhood I grew up in.