When you start a new job, everyone in that company is telling you how wonderful things will be now, that you are here. How did you come to solve all the problems that are and aren`t in your job description ☺ You are the baby Jesus that will save humanity…but wait, didn`t Jesus sacrifice itself for humanity first? Yep, we all know the story and this is how the cookie crumbles. The first weeks should be ok, in the 2nd month you have to put up a common-sense shield just to protect yourself from the task-throwing contest in which you are the main target. “Please, can you help with this little favour…it will only take 10 minutes”, and this is just the beginning. You are allowed to say “Sorry, I already have something to do at this moment and I have to deliver by the end of the day. Can I help you after?” and it can be a game-changer in your brand new role. You are polite and get to do what you were hired to do. Being polite is the key to your well-balanced life. Some people go to the office with a small amount of actual fear of what would come. This is not healthy for anyone’s integrity. I have to criticise this kind of management just because it can sell a fake image over the hiring process thinking only from their perspective “We have to hire someone capable fast!” Please hire someone who really suits your company profile, don`t hurry just to fill in the role. You spend a lot of money on job adverts, spend your money wisely. And if you are a foreign company please do not take any interviews before you set up an office in Romania. You will hire a candidate and pay the salary with him not creating any revenue.
Let us go back to the polite candidate who after only 3 months figures out there are so many wrong things in the company and decides to leave. Being in the trial period, the candidate doesn`t have to provide any reason why he chose freedom ☺ This is when management typically freaks out, being scared that will have to restart the hiring process. This is the real reason they freak out instead of thinking about the polite candidate who started this role with a huge amount of enthusiasm and about the issues that probably they have that led to this situation in the first place. The only guilty person, in this case, is the polite candidate and there is no question about it. During this process of immense revenge planning, the candidate tries to finish all the tasks before the last day on the job, taking work home and still trying to leave with a peaceful mind.
We are leaving the candidate behind and focusing on its empathy for the next person who will take their role. It doesn`t matter who it is but that person will find this on the desk ☺
This ex polite candidate is a treasure, just because he thought about the next person in line. Who does that anymore, on a day to day basis? Who is thinking about others with the same passion that applies for itself?
I would ask someone about the leave date of the ex-polite candidate before trying out that Ferrero candy ☺
This is a true story and the next management that will work with the polite candidate will be lucky, lucky, and lucky…..unless, as we all know…history repeats itself ☺
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