Perception and Communication

A pervious situation where I have gotten the wrong insight of an individual, happened while working at Phones4u, while working at phones4u, I had up to four colleagues I worked with and I was initially assigned to pair up with a particular colleague called Lance who was the manager of that particular store.

My first thought of Lance when I first saw him was, how am I going to work with Lance, because my first day at the phones4u, he had a meeting with all staff, and it lasted for 2hours, consisted of lance talking about how he is going to change, the way we do things in the store, and how he doesn’t like the way things are done. After him saying all this I noticed the reaction of staff that had been working there for over 2yrs, they didn’t seem very happy.

The first thought that came to mind was, how am I possibly going to work with this manager, with my  previous perception of him is him being ultra arrogant. And with other staff saying, they had never had a manger like that, got me thinking can I cope with such an arrogant and strict manager, what made it worse he was my partner.

After the 2hr speech about changes, the new manger had to go to the head office for a meeting, so I didn’t get to work with him, which was a relief, I came to the conclusion it would be hard working with such a person.

The next day was back to work, funny enough I resumed work late, and panic had kicked in, due to too much thinking about, what my manager would say. Strolling in late,with all eyes on me, but to my surprise he said “how you doing mate, hope your not too tired from the long shift yesterday”. 

During lunch Lance suggested me and him should go on brake at the same time, I was really dreading going on break with him, while eating lunch we had various interesting conversations, about views on life ,the world and social events, after lunch I told him, your much different from when your at work, he told me, its better not mix business with pleasure, to get the job done every one has to do what they have to do, that he is only putting on an act, jus to get things done (job). 

This showed me that people can give different perceptions across to people, consciously and sub consciously, but lance was diffidently  not the person I thought he was, I even started to see him more as a friend by the time I left the company.

However to conclude its better to read the book, and not blurb before Judging the book, in other words are perception of people should be made after, we get to know them, rather than judging them.