I have an employee (my first), and I give them tasks to do. However, often they will do the task in a way that
officially meets the description I gave
but doesn't exactly do what I want, because I was thinking about it in a way that was implicit but obvious to me.
It seems to me that what is...
@Ælis Short answer: The job now basically involves making implicit things explicit, so do that.
Instead of expecting the employee to do so... you can mention you're struggling with it, and ask them to encourage you... but it's not really their job.
I'd wait a bit actually... there's pretty little about how they've given their feedback so far, and it could really do with an example of stuff they thought was implicit but not picked up on by the employee..
So it's a very easy conclusion to make but ... well... I can't be sure yet ;)
Well, my answer is more a "here are all the things that you definitively shouldn't do" with a little of "doing that might work". So I don't think an example/edit to the question would change my answer
We're technically still a site for 'things that work'. Otherwise we can go write answers to each question that say 'I definitely know that shooting this person doesn't solve your problem' ;)
I probably wasn't clear enough x) It's more a "my last manager screamed at me which wasn't giving the result he wanted but my new manager does that instead and it's working better"
It's a bit of an extreme example but... it's also a very clear one, one that makes it clear that asking 'what should I do' isn't very great, but also illustrates that answering what you shouldn't do isn't all that good either all the time :P
Pfft, just 3 more crochet squares to sew in ends, then to put the colors in Ravelry and add them to the project, and put the squares on the blocking board...
Good luck with your laundry then. On my end, I have some dishes to wash. It's been a week since I haven't washed anything and I can't postpone again because I don't really have dishes left x)
My laundry? :P That'd be feasible, that would be 3 pairs of underpants and a towel or two...
I'm stuck doing the stuff from mom/dad/brother too, so there's about 20 underpants, 15 pairs of socks, 4/5 pants, and a full load of towels (usually 15-20)...
@Tinkeringbell I can understand that. I usually don't mind doing laundry but I don't really fold it ^^' I just sort things which I find kind of fun because I like sorting things but, yeah, the folding part isn't that much interesting (which is why I don't really do it ^^)
Well, we usually just kinda shake our clothes out really hard, when they come out of the washing machine? Then we already put the shirts on hangers to dry, and the pants on a line... usually, that means there's almost no wrinkles in anything.
But the small stuff needs folding, just so we have space to put up new laundry to dry, and mom doesn't want unfolded stuff in the closets :P
@Ælis That's a really really big load... I guess I prefer smaller ones. Don't take as much time to hang and fold :D
@Tinkeringbell Your mom probably shouldn't take a look in my closet then, it's really horrible x) Sometimes I would take an afternoon to sort and fold every clothes I own but after that, I just go back to my regular self of not folding anything and my closet quickly become a mess again
@Tinkeringbell I too prefer smaller ones, but I don't own a washing machine so it cost less if I just do one big per month (preferably at my parents/grandparents house so that I don't have to pay anything :p )
@Tinkeringbell I'm kind of sad to not have my own, but instilling one in my current apartment would be difficult and I'm not sure about how long I will stay there, so I'm doing without for now
Hah, in a time where every other article is writing about how we should repair our clothes, or trade them/get them second-hand because we apparently only wear them 7 times on average?
@brug I had the same issue when I was still leaving at my parents'. The trick is to sort them (make differents pile for different people) but, well, the folding isn't that important :p
@Tinkeringbell My favorite plushy is worn out too much for it to be fixed anymore. It breaks my heart but I don't know what to do. Mending can only go so far (and trust me, he already has a lot of fixing done on him)
;) I can't find it though... I remember ours actually being pretty brightly coloured, while most of the stuff I find through Google is either more muted or a rhino... ours definitely wasn't a rhino :P
Can find yours having never seen it... can't find the one from my childhood XD
@JourneymanGeek Honestly it was just major luck, there's a whole bunch of pink horses with blue stars on the Google images page, but this one looked like he might have the age to actually be someone's old plush ;)
I'm mostly sleeping in t-shirts because I have thick blankets... and somehow if I get too hot, I wake up all itchy. So t-shirts help. I do have a few very warm pj's for when it's really, really, really cold, like freezing more than 5 degrees at night ;)
I'm almost always wearing socks. Unless it's really hot, but even then I always wear slippers... We have laminate floors too, but somehow even on hot days barefeet is just annoying, it's like I feel every little bit of dirt sticking to my feet :/
I mean there is also something to be said about shoes. I generally prefer wearing shoes over going barefoot, which I'm getting the impression is rather unusual :P
@Ash I'm usually lucky if I get to wear sandals for a few weeks during summer vacation... Sometimes its too cold, most often I wear socks and my hiking boots ;)
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@Mithical I don't like going fully barefoot outside. I like having something a bit covering the soles of my feet
