In Other Words

Mass Comm

We had a one-day worker yesterday. Some bloke that was a fresh grad and came in to do some work with me but didn’t know how quickly to get out of the office. He took a look at me and said ‘I’m not working with him!’ and ran for the door.

No, not quite true, he didn’t say that, he didn’t run for the door, he just didn’t come back the next day. Understandable seeing as they had lied to him about his job scope, they were only paying him 6.50 per hour and he had to travel an hour and a half to get out here. Not good for somebody that’s recently graduated from uni and is expecting to rake in the big bucks.

He wanted to get into PR and he seemed a nice enough fellow, but I do have to say he didn’t have that innate PR instinct. Good PR people always PR. No matter whether they consider the person insignificant or unimportant, they should always PR as you never know when somebody might be useful. Great PR people do this simply because they really enjoy talking to other people.

This bloke did neither. We went out with my boss to have a bit of food at lunch and the bloke just hung on his phone and talked to his friends. Now that’s very nice, but even if a person is a boss for only one day it might be wise to try to at least be nice to them. You can never know when you’ll meet a person again.

You never know whom they might know, whom they might talk to, who they might influence or how many degrees of separation there might be between them and your desired future employer.

Of course whom am I to say these kind of things as I’m not terribly good at being nice to people. My sense of humour is far to unacceptable for that. Oh well, at least I wasn’t educated as a mass comm. guy.

Time to go back to work.

The only difference between genius and insanity is success.

posted by Symbol @ 30.6.04