What does it mean to be an employee of a company/group/industry? Get your work done, and do it well. When you’re an employee for someones else company, it’s important to get all your work done and make sure it’s completed to its full potential. At my internship, I’ve been in many situations where I’ve noticed that I made a spelling error, or didn’t have everything aligned properly on the page, and although I personally didn’t care about making a few little errors, I knew my boss would.
In that moment I realized a different aspect of being an employee. As an employee, you’re hired by a boss because they trust and believe in you. They trust that you will complete the work on time, and they believe that if you notice you made an error like I did, you will go back and make it right. Much like when my boss gives me work to do, he does it because he trusts that I have the knowledge to do so and he believes I will do it correctly.
What if a client checked in on his or hers website to make sure my boss was doing his job to his fullest, and saw that an advertisement was posted with the wrong information. The client doesn’t know or care about who actually made the errors, weather it be me or my boss, all they know is that they hired one man to promote their business and he isn’t doing his job - so the client fires him. Not only does my boss lose a client but he also builds a bad reputation. Why? All because I was too careless to double check my work.
As an employee I maybe entitled to have lunch breaks or receive a paycheck once a week, but I am not entitled to ruin a brand that I had no part in creating.
In that moment I realized a different aspect of being an employee. As an employee, you’re hired by a boss because they trust and believe in you. They trust that you will complete the work on time, and they believe that if you notice you made an error like I did, you will go back and make it right. Much like when my boss gives me work to do, he does it because he trusts that I have the knowledge to do so and he believes I will do it correctly.
What if a client checked in on his or hers website to make sure my boss was doing his job to his fullest, and saw that an advertisement was posted with the wrong information. The client doesn’t know or care about who actually made the errors, weather it be me or my boss, all they know is that they hired one man to promote their business and he isn’t doing his job - so the client fires him. Not only does my boss lose a client but he also builds a bad reputation. Why? All because I was too careless to double check my work.
As an employee I maybe entitled to have lunch breaks or receive a paycheck once a week, but I am not entitled to ruin a brand that I had no part in creating.