Personal Narrative: My First Interview

Everyone is different. We all come from diverse traditions and ways of seeing life. It is not unusual when people fight with each other due to different beliefs, ways of doing things, ways of coping with difficult situations, basically just by being themselves. Indeed we all have a right to speak our mind. People tend to speak their mind out loud about any situation and others may agree or disagree and that is when arguments initiate. The way these people handle their situations says so much about them.

Lately I have applied for my first job. I went in for the interview, not thinking about any outcome. I was just trying to process how my first interview went. About a week later, I received an email to go get a drug test. As soon as my results were sent to the company, I received a call from them asking when I could go in for my training. I couldn’t be happier with this. I went in to take my training and this took about 3-4 days of work. Shortly after my training I was out in the floor working.

As an employee who takes cares of merchandise and costumer assistant, also known as MCA, I work on the floor, straitening, stocking, cleaning and assisting costumes with apparel. As four months have passed by I have learned and gained experience I would have never thought I would have. As an MCA,

Then my coworker confronted me. She boldly said, “Paola, why haven’t you done your job? You do know your job is to get your section clean right?” and I responded with, “Well… I was doing my job. I was helping with the cash register in order so the line won’t get long with frustrated costumers and I was helping satisfying costumers.” And she quickly responded with, “Well in my point of view my priority is to get the sections clean as soon as possible.” And I just respectfully said, “My priority is to help others as much as I can, while I am still getting my job done.” And just like that our conversation