The thing that comes to mind when I think about this subject is one time I really thought that I knew what I was doing in an old job that I had. I went to my boss and he gave me the task of taking apart an engine on a customer’s truck to find out what was wrong with it. So I went out and started taking everything apart on this truck that was in the shop so that I could pull the engine out of it. Going through all the check points to make sure that I did everything right to make sure that I didn’t mess it up. Well when I got the engine out and started tearing it apart piece by piece and got it all torn down to just the bare block. Then it was lunch time and I went and was eating and I was talking to my boss and he asked me if I had taken the top of the engine apart yet. I looked at him with kind of a confusing look and said I thought you said to take the whole engine out? He said no I said take the top of the engine off so we could replace the cam shaft and I thought he said take the engine apart to change the crankshaft. Well then I felt stupid and also looked bad as a employee because I misunderstood what he had said and because of that he was not to happy with me and the costumer was not happy with the company because my boss had told him that he would have the truck back by one o clock. So now I had to try and get this engine all back together and put it together right as soon as I could and my boss had to go call the customer and explain why he was not going to get his truck back at one o clock. I think why this happened was I was just looking forward to getting to the job I didn’t actually listen to what my boss was saying and the names of the parts are very similar. How I think it changed the way that I listen to people now a lot closer so next time this won’t happen again. I think also that if I go and repeat orders to my boss so that way it is clear on what I have to do and nothing gets mixed up.
conclusion
In my conclusion i think that it shows just how easy it is to just assume something or think that you know what you are doing because you may have done something over and over and you think that your really good at it but you never know unless you have double checked and made sure that you are doing the right thing. so i think that if i had listened clearly and repeated back to my boss his orders i think that this would of been avoided.here is my link
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