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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

April Blog Challenge: V is for Validate

It's nice when, once in awhile, you get validated at your job. You work hard, try to do your best at not screwing up and hope that every once in awhile, your boss will say, "Hey, I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work. I want you to know I really do appreciate all that you do."

As most of us know, this does not happen often. And for some people, never. The average person probably doesn't expect to hear it every day, but just every so often. It's nice to have your hard work noticed and appreciated.

Last weekend this happened.

Nothing major happened this last weekend at work. It went very smoothly, actually. After we locked up, I cleaned everything up at the front desk, double checked with Dr. J's wife that she had the money doing end-of-day, and left.

When I got home almost half an hour later, I discovered a voice mail on my cell phone. I figured the call came in while on the mountain as there's no cell signal. I listened to the voice mail and couldn't help but smile and think, "awww."

Dr. J had called my cell with this message, "Hey J it's just me, I just wanted to say thanks for all of your help today. L just did end-of-day and it was perfect, no issues. You're the only one who's consistent with no mistakes. (pause) You want a full-time job? You could be married to the vet clinic (chuckles). To hell with grandma and grandpa, work for us. Okay, see you Wednesday, have a good one."

I have no intentions of leaving my grandparents in the wind, but I just thought that was the sweetest voice mail. I work hard and try not to make too many mistakes. I'm not perfect and I know that I still make mistakes. But getting a call like that . . . just makes all my hard work validated.

14 comments:

  1. That IS what all of us employees dream of - - a boss who appreciates you and LETS YOU KNOW he/she appreciates you!! Nice job J., I am a tad bit envious :)

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    1. All employers should make their employees feel appreciated, it really does make a difference.

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  2. It's always nice to know you're appreciated by your employers. Where I work, it happens so rarely that when it does happen, you immediately start searching for evidence of body snatchers.

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    1. My last job was the same way. When they did praise me, I was thinking, "what do you want this time?" lol

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  3. AAAHHHHH, that is awesome. Being appreciated for a job well done just makes you want to keep on doing a good job.

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    1. Definitely makes me want to keep doing good! :o)

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  4. Aww that was really nice of her :)

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    1. It was very nice. Definitely above and beyond!

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  5. That's awesome :-)

    Feel's great, don't it? :-)

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  6. I am a mail lady. No one ever gets excited about their bills. I have been chased by dogs let out on purpose, chased by old men with canes for not having their SS check, and chased by Welfare folk who have no money for groceries or gas, but stand there in a puff of cigarette smoke while telling me their sad story.

    Their is little love for the mail lady.

    I do love my job though, and many of the aspects of it, but it's been a LONG time since I felt like what I did made a difference to anyone.

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    1. I've never been chased by a customer. That's a tough job. You guys should probably get hazard pay!

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  7. That is awesome! Good for you. It's so nice to be appreciated. I once worked for a guy for four years and not once did he thank me for doing my job.

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    1. It's so sad when employers don't ever thank their employees. You would think that it might kill them to do so.

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