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This week at work has been more tolerable because I haven't been at the checkpoint dealing with passengers much at all. Instead I've been instructing co-workers in a specific function at work. We did classroom stuff Monday, small group hands-on Tuesday, and individual time hands on each day for the rest of the week. My last student will be today, and he's the one who's done this function before at another location. We call him Vegas, guess why. Oddly, he's the one I'm most worried about. I'm sure he'll be fine, eventually, but he's probably unlearning a bunch of bad habits. Apparently at Vegas they don't worry to much about going by the book, they just play the odds - 'it's not likely to be a problem, let it go.' As you might expect.
The Las Vegas group get awards all the time for doing the work with far fewer people than required by the book, which just pisses me off. They get rewarded for doing a half-assed job! >:P (How on earth would I express myself properly without emoticons?)
When we were in classroom I had the opportunity to notice how much Duffy, who was my first trainee ever, has changed since he's been working here. He originally started here, two years(?) ago as a quiet, nervous-seeming and well-mannered boy, with a completely expressionless face and slow way of responding that made people wonder if he was understanding the material.* Monday he was the class wise-ass. :)
Today I'm hopefully going to breakfast with a few of the girls to celebrate the one girl's 25th birthday. I think the others want to make a bit of a deal about it because she's pregnant (due on my birthday, in fact, August 11!) and there's always the thought in the back of people's minds that she's going to go on maternity leave at any time and we won't see her for a while. She's a firecracker with a dry sense of humor, and has been saying that she wants to work right up until the last minute and have the baby on the Director's desk. :)
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*ETA - wanted to note, his lack of affect made other people wonder if he was understanding, not me. I could tell he was totally on top of everything when I was first training him. My public way of putting it was to suggest that the problem might be that he'd spent so many years in California and just wasn't moving at East Coast speeds. :)
The Las Vegas group get awards all the time for doing the work with far fewer people than required by the book, which just pisses me off. They get rewarded for doing a half-assed job! >:P (How on earth would I express myself properly without emoticons?)
When we were in classroom I had the opportunity to notice how much Duffy, who was my first trainee ever, has changed since he's been working here. He originally started here, two years(?) ago as a quiet, nervous-seeming and well-mannered boy, with a completely expressionless face and slow way of responding that made people wonder if he was understanding the material.* Monday he was the class wise-ass. :)
Today I'm hopefully going to breakfast with a few of the girls to celebrate the one girl's 25th birthday. I think the others want to make a bit of a deal about it because she's pregnant (due on my birthday, in fact, August 11!) and there's always the thought in the back of people's minds that she's going to go on maternity leave at any time and we won't see her for a while. She's a firecracker with a dry sense of humor, and has been saying that she wants to work right up until the last minute and have the baby on the Director's desk. :)
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*ETA - wanted to note, his lack of affect made other people wonder if he was understanding, not me. I could tell he was totally on top of everything when I was first training him. My public way of putting it was to suggest that the problem might be that he'd spent so many years in California and just wasn't moving at East Coast speeds. :)