Yesterday was my one month anniversary of leaving my corporate life. I visited my old store on Saturday and it was kind of surreal. I went in there and it felt like I had just been on vacation. I started bossing my old assistant around just to mess with him. It was good to see them. I love those "kids".
In the T-mobile world right now, it is a performance review time. There are several categories an employee is measured on and one can get a "Not meeting expectations," "Meeting Expectations," or "Exceeding Expectations."
I always loved performance review time. It was an opportunity for me to sit down with each of my team members and go over their performance for the past year. It was a time for me to share with them their raises which was a "pay for performance" type situation. Some of them left happy and relieved. I loved those conversations. They were fun and it was a time to reward those who worked hard. Others left with a sense of dissatisfaction. Those conversations were tough. It hard to say, "Sorry you sucked last year so you aren't going to get a raise. If you don't improve, you won't be with the company much longer. So let's jump on the bandwagon and do better this year." I always tried to be positive with every employee regardless of their performance because they are human. Being negative never helps motivate and some just needed to find the motivation within. Others, well, sometimes the job is not a right fit and I would encourage them to look for something different.
I HATE potty training. With Hannah, it was easy. Hannah had the motivation to be potty trained and Cheryl, her babysitter, helped teach me how to potty train her. She was potty trained right before her 3rd birthday.
Emilee, on the other hand, is the most STUBBORN child I have ever seen. I had her potty trained for 3 weeks in May. My mom helped me with that when I was home from my surgery. Then we changed up the routine by her going back to the babysitters. Before I knew it, she was peeing on the floor consistently at the babysitters. We ended up putting her back in Pull-Ups again and she has been ever since. I have TRIED to potty train her from the day I stopped working. She is soooo unmotivated. She could care less. I have tried all the tricks in the book. Today's trick: I bought a "Tangled" brush because she loves Tangled and loves brushing her hair. (It's funny...she will sing the song all day long while brushing her hair. She will not let me do her hair because she likes to brush it all day. She even tied toilet paper to it last night to make it long. That was fun to clean up. Okay, so I got side tracked...back to potty training.) Anyways, so I told her if she keeps her panties dry all day long, she can have the "Tangled" brush. She seems motivated by that. Hopefully this works.
I much rather be doing performance reviews right now than potty training.
Emilee, you get a "Not Meeting Expectations" in potty training. You can have your raise once I don't have to change your diaper anymore. You are almost 4 and I know you can do it. You are smart and funny and cute. You just have to find that inspiration inside of you that says "I AM A BIG GIRL TODAY! I CAN GO ON THE POTTY!!!" I look forward to seeing you progress and if you need any help, I am here for you. You do, however, get an "Exceeding Expectations" in the cute department. Especially when you tell me I am the Best Mommy in the WHOLE WORLD!!! So you can keep your job as my daughter...for today anyway.
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