The day started out ok. I woke up a bit early (5:30) and studied for awhile. I got to talk to David. But once class started my day started getting worse. We had another guest speaker for my political theory class. Next class period we have a paper due, yet we have NO idea what we're supposed to be writing about. An integrated set of propositions? Huh? I've taken tomorrow off of work to take care of that.
Work is where my dad really went wrong. I am starting to hate my intern, not because of who he is, but because he confuses me. Why does he say he understands something when he really doesn't? Why does he always forget what I asked him to do, then when a project isn't complete say that I didn't ask him to do it? Why do I have to explain something more than once? If he can't remember the steps, write them down!
The part that upset me nearly to tears today was when he didn't listen to me! I've been really careful not to talk down to him or do anything besides treat him as my equal. Anytime I say something he stops me midway through and says he understands. He did that today so I asked if he needed anything, he said nope. So I left him to the project. I check on him half an hour later and he's repeating work I already did. I asked him why he was doing work I had already done, and he said I didn't tell him that. But I did! I showed him exactly what to do! Perhaps if this was the first time I'd think it was my fault. So I started again to show him what to do and he said he already understood and that he'd just do his part and not try to understand the big picture. But then he doesn't know what to do! I stomped off and threw a pen against the wall. (It slipped! I swear! That hard? Yes! It slipped and hit the wall very very hard!) I then went and took a 5 minute break in the bathroom to think about my next action. Afterwards I went and talked to my boss. He had conferences with both of us and we've started working out what's going on.
My boss said he's seen a lot of the same tendencies in my intern. I think I might overreact a bit because my brother does the same thing as this guy does. My dad tried to tell my brother once when he was learning to drive to drive slower, the police are often here. My brother told him 'yea yea' and they got pulled over 2 minutes later for speeding! Hehe. The police let them off after telling my dad to keep my brother under control. Somehow I think my brother got smacked upside the head for that one. I was just so sad and I didn't know how to make things better.
Somehow I didn't think telling the intern 'You're a stupid ass jerk!' would have been very professional. I resisted temptation, but I sure thought it in his direction very loud!
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:-( Det där lät inte roligt. Men det är ju tur att din chef verkar tyckka samma sak som dig. Vi får hoppas att din intern blir bättre nu, men jag är tveksam..
"Somehow I didn't think telling the intern 'You're a stupid ass jerk!' would have been very professional. I resisted temptation, but I sure thought it in his direction very loud!" Jag tror att det hade känts skönt att säga det till honom, men som du säger det skulle nog inte vara så professionellt. :-)
Han verkar inte vara intresserad av att göra det du försöker visa honom.
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