Trump I ain’t February 25, 2005 ~ 12:31 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackback
Neighborhood dogs on a snow-covered car last month.
You all know that I watch The Apprentice like an addict who has at last scored a hit: greedily, voraciously, lovingly. I’ve said in the past that hearing Trump say “You’re Fired!” releases a lot of work-related stress for me. One of the professors where I work and I even have a game - if someone does something extremely stupid, the prof and I look at each other and say “They’re fired.”
Today I had to fire someone in reality. And let me tell you, it’s not as cool as Trump makes it seem. It’s pretty hard, actually. I’m not going to give too many details because I don’t want to get Dooced, but person in question was a work-study student, whom I think wanted out of the job anyway, but has to do things the hard way, which means that I’ve had three conversations with Financial Aid already, and am writing an email describing everything that happened to the head of the Work Study program. Fun.
As my big boss said when I was talking to her about it this morning (pre-firing), “It’s a learning experience. Just look at it like that. It’s something that everyone in management has to do sooner or later.” This only confirms what I have long thought: I would rather be a worker bee than a management bee. I am so not Apprentice material.
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