Recognition
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The other day I was sitting in the break room at work waiting to clock in. And in the break room, the walls are lined with so many OSHA flip-charts and sexual harassment papers that I didn’t take the effort to look to see if anything had changed. But while sitting in silence with the other employees, I noticed my boss walk by the room, and after a quick moment of eye contact stop walking and retrace a few steps to pop her head in the door way.
She said my name out loud, which I figured meant I had something to be worried about. I thought, she had caught that order of fries I never rung up.
But, she directed my attention (and inadvertently everyone else in the room) to the board on the wall that had our sales goals for the month. Percentages of desserts sold, soda sales, entrees, and a few other measurable categories for food and drink.
And apparently out of all other servers, and I literally mean all other serves, I was the only one to meet all of my goals. Some by just one percent, others by a enough to brag about, but the the only one to get the minimum score in all categories, beating out several other servers with just one category missing.
Sharpied over everything, were the words “New Guy Beats All?”, as if I was an underdog prize fighter.
It’s hard to get excited to go to work. I imagine even rock-stars don’t want to go to work some days, but I only know that it’s easier when sometimes you say the right things to the right people, and suggest just enough desserts to get a you little recognition for what you do. I still consider myself the weakest server there, but it feels good to have physical proof of getting better.
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