What do you do when your boss thinks you're more intelligent than you actually are?
Yesterday my boss wanted me to somehow get some paper documents in his email with no scanner. Cool chick that I am I just happened to have my digi. camera on hand so I took pictures of them, hooked it up to my computer and somehow managed to get them in an email for him to send. I didn't really know HOW to do this crap but it's not too hard to figure out so it's all good. But THEN he came to me with some harder shit and I had NO IDEA what to do.
So of course I pretended like I did and spent the next hour and a half figuring the shit out. I got it eventually and just acted like it was no biggie and blamed the fact that it took so long on the slowness of the computer.
But what would have been the RIGHT thing to do? Should I have told him flat out that I'm stoopid and he shouldn't have hired a former truck driver to be an admin. assist? Or did I do the "smart" thing by just figuring it out and letting him think I'm cool? Or is there an in between?
I just don't know.
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5 comments:
Creative with the digicam. I would have made some lude comment about swiping the papers on my ass and having them magically appear in his email.
There is nothing wrong with saying you don't know how to do something. Better than saying 2 hours later you didn't know how. The best response would be something like: "I'm not exactly sure, but I have some ideas on how I can do that. Let me give it a shot" -or- "I don't know myself, but I'm sure someone has posted something on the internet on how to do that.
That shows your both willing to learn and ambitious. If its something they think you should know how to do, it can be sensitive. Best to take the task, research a solution as quickly as possible, if one isn't found, inquire. Nothing wrong with admitting you don't know everything in the world.
The trick is to ensure there isn't a serious of any of these events too closely together. So as to imply they should have hired that trucker. Hey wait.. what's wrong with truck drivers?
But you ARE cool, Lindy! Keep your trap shut and see if you can wing it. Hell, I've been winging it as far back as I can remember! And by "it", I mean just about everything.
Hey, Lindy..
you did the right thing.. and if something hard comes up, talk to your colleagues or get answers from the internet.. we find a lot on google, yahoo answers these days.
Very often i ended up learning a new task while doing it!!?! I used to quietly go talk to my "older" colleagues, and i will talk about their lives, and then ask:"so.. have you ever done that or that? and how did you do it?" And then i will thank them... I did it this way, because i was working side by side with my boss on several projects and i did not want him to know i was clueless. Oops!
Always keep your head up...
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Thanks you guys. *sheepish grin*
Lord I for real never even thought to ask the all-knowing Google.
I can't ask anybody I work with, they are all my bosses. (and most of them ask me to do stuff cuz they don't know how either) I swear It's like 4 bosses and me. (and our truckers)
Oh Sgt. you crack me up, and no silly there's nothing wrong with truckers. I drove semi for 3 years before they decided to let me come into the world of office people. (factory work and retail jobs before that)
So sometimes I freak out and feel like a misfit that stumbled across a job with real responsiblily where I don't have to wear a uniform with my name on it.
And even though I'm going to college and they had enough faith in me to hire me to do this . . . blah, blah, obesses, obsess.
I just need to calm down.
Cruiser if I was gay I would so be falling for you.
Le Petit I envy your approach, your badass.
Yeah. Google is great for "How-To" stuff. This is how I ended up with 4 kids.
Ok..I only needed it for 2 of the them.
What.... I took good notes and made diagrams.
I loved having a uniform with names on it. I never had to remember who someone was, it was right there:
Rank on collar, name on chest. Tough to mess that up.
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