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I had to replace my office manager on short notice a couple months back. The first hire quit after 1 day. WTH?
So I called my second choice in for an interview. She has a great resume, letters of recommendation and plenty of experience. To be honest the reason she wasn't my first choice is because I felt I could get a younger candidate at a better wage.
So I dial up this Norwegian woman and ask her to come in for a face to face. I wonder what my face looked like when the woman with a Norwegian name opens the front door and she is a Serena Williams look alike. After the initial surprise we talked and I come to the conclusion she is going to work.
Due to the short notice I got from the previous manager she got two whopping days of training in a very specialized and highly regulated business.
Well, it has been a couple months and this woman dug in from day one and made the office her own. She reworked most everything, the office is more organized than in the last 20 years. She is a quick study and she also does her homework before she just runs in with a question. She has done things on her own that has taken me hours to teach other office staff.
What a blessing it is to have the right person working for you. My job is going to be so much easier when she gets time under her belt.
It is easy to bitch, but we need to be thankful when things go well for us.
So I called my second choice in for an interview. She has a great resume, letters of recommendation and plenty of experience. To be honest the reason she wasn't my first choice is because I felt I could get a younger candidate at a better wage.
So I dial up this Norwegian woman and ask her to come in for a face to face. I wonder what my face looked like when the woman with a Norwegian name opens the front door and she is a Serena Williams look alike. After the initial surprise we talked and I come to the conclusion she is going to work.
Due to the short notice I got from the previous manager she got two whopping days of training in a very specialized and highly regulated business.
Well, it has been a couple months and this woman dug in from day one and made the office her own. She reworked most everything, the office is more organized than in the last 20 years. She is a quick study and she also does her homework before she just runs in with a question. She has done things on her own that has taken me hours to teach other office staff.
What a blessing it is to have the right person working for you. My job is going to be so much easier when she gets time under her belt.
It is easy to bitch, but we need to be thankful when things go well for us.
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