Today was my last day at Luna and being honest I am happy that project is over. I'm very excited to graduate but by the end of my project I was kind of unsatisfied with what I decided to do. I went into project thinking that Kasey and I would do a mix of baking and marketing and would also meet some cool new people along the way. However, this was not the case. We did not do any marketing at all and not all of the employees were very friendly. I understand that it is frustrating to deal with the "new people" at your job. I experienced it when I worked at Tommy's. However, it is no excuse to be rude to new people because they are slow and still learning. This kind of hurt my feelings. I know it sounds corny but most of the employees made Kasey and I feel very hurt in the way that they acted around us and towards us. It was not so much what they said/did to us but more of what they said behind our backs. I didn't know these people very well so I should not have taken it so seriously. But I also think that this is an even better reason that people should not be talking about us, because they barely knew us.
On a more positive note today I got to do something completely new, pop popcorn for caramel corn. Bridget bought this tiny machine that she thought would be a lot bigger to pop the popcorn. So it took me all day to pop all the popcorn needed. But I got it done and helped decorate some cookies along the way. The picture below is of the sun cookies I decorated.
It’s so sad that you didn’t have such a good experience on project when you were looking forward to it; I can totally relate to that. I also went into project with expectations of it being fun and exciting and something new beyond the monotony of school and project did not turn out how I expected it to.
ReplyDeleteIt’s horrible to go into a situation where you’re new and don’t know every minute detail of what you’re supposed to be doing for every second of the day and the people around you are less than understanding. It makes what you hoped would be a positive experience turn negative from the start because you just don’t know what to do and don’t feel welcome anymore.
For me, my sponsor at the vet’s office caused a lot of trouble even though she was never around and never really spent time with me. She was not very welcoming while everyone else was and throughout my entire time on project, I was misled about what I would be doing which was not a very fun experience. You get so excited for one things and then next thing you know, something happens, and you cannot do that anymore for some asinine reason that did not exist five minutes ago (in my case, I wasn’t allowed to file at either place I shadowed for no reason after spending a couple hours filing).
Anyway, I’m sorry that happened, that’s so unfortunate, I hope it didn’t ruin project too much or hurt too much.