My fourth job was the fastest one to be over. I started at\nthe local Perkins restaurant as a cook during July of 2017, and it was one of\nthe most trying experiences of my life. Within my first three shifts I realized\nthat I was working with a lot of people who were very unhappy humans. This led\nto a lot of stress in management, which led to a lot of anger from the\nemployees underneath. The biggest lesson I learned about sales from Perkins was\nhow to sell myself. I very quickly realized that I needed to sell myself, since\nas a cook, I wasn\u2019t tasked with selling a product or service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My boss was someone who took the stress in her life outside\nof work, and took it out on her employees, so the mentality of the employee was\nto \u201csuck up\u201d to her, so you don\u2019t get fired. This was hard for me because I\nreally believe that you should always work your hardest and do the best you\ncan, and that people in charge will honor that. Unfortunately, this is not\noften the case. I had to wrestle with whether I was willing to compromise my\nvalues of responsibility and respect, to keep my job. I ended up standing\nstrong to what I believed, and my boss saw that and respected it. Instead of\ntrying to put myself ahead of others to \u201clook better\u201d, I sold myself as an\nhonorable person, who respected her manager. It served me well, because my boss\nreally valued having a person like that around, because I was honest with her\nabout why things were hard, and how things could get better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, I only worked there for a month because I decided\nto come to GCC full time in August, but I learned a lot about how to be who I\nam and that people will respect it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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