First Blog 8/30/12 Question 2: I STOOD MY GROUND

Issue: Tell on a co-worker that consistently slacked off, left me with extra work, and left early. By the way he was my shift manager.

I hate being a tattle tale or even hearing someone else complain about others that slack off or cheat in the work place, cheat in school, or simply cheat in life. I have always been taught to mind your own business because they (cheaters or short cut takers) will get what they deserve. I have always lived with that state of mind, but while working for a high end hotel I came across someone that made me want to change my personal values. I studied (analyzed) his work habits and managing habits and came to the conclusion that he was skating by on my accomplishments and others success as well. This did not sit well with me, but of course having the belief that I did I wanted to step back and see what my options were. I compiled a list of reasons to tell on him and a list to not tell on him. The reason that I wanted to make a list is to make sure I was doing the right thing. On the list were things like: "I am new and could be fired", "I do not see how hard he works in the office", "He can fire me himself if he knew what I was planing", "I could become shift manager if he leaves", and there were many other reasons on that list. After much internal debate I decided to bring it up to our branch supervisor who had told us if we wanted to talk he would keep things confidential. I went up to our supervisor and not only told him what was going on but also came with evidence, since I knew he might ask how I knew these things. I gave him proof of the mess he did not clean up, told him to check his clock out card, and to check his messy work place. I knew I was risking a lot by bringing this up, but I had thought about how to approach the situation and was going to see it through. At the end things worked out for me but I really had to analyze and weight the pros and cons of my decision to tell on someone. This was probably one of the hardest things to do because once I set the plan in motion there was no going back. I had to really use all my critical thinking skills to pull of a successful argument of why he (shift manager) did not belong at the hotel.


-Heisenberg

Introducing Myself

Hello Everyone,
My name is Alfredo Lopez, Heisenberg is my blogspot username, I am a fourth year Aviation Management Major. My looks maybe deceiving because as you can see I look of asian descent  but sadly I'm not. I am 100% mexican. I have attended state all four years and I have loved every semester that has come and gone. This is actually my second communication class that I have taken. The first class I took was COMM 40 and I had a blast. I went into that class with an open mind and came out taking 3rd place in parliamentary speaking. Not my goal but I guess I did learn a few things over that semester. That is my goal for this class also, which is to just absorb and learn new ways of communicating with others. I am looking forward to this class and hopefully meeting some of you. Have a great ladies and gentlemen.


Sincerely, Heisenberg