Dear Diary
I had a very stressful ten days recently, coping with daily change to my workflow in Delhi. I find my team here to be so unreliable and irresponsible it is sometimes hard to cope. I am not a scary Alan Sugar type boss, I just want a strong and supportive team.
I have tried asking my assistant to think over the weekend about how we can improve communication as we constantly misinterpret each other. She looks at me with a blank expression and when Monday comes the expression is the same. We tried everything, from writing instructions down and me setting practical examples but nothing works! She doesn’t seem to care about any of her responsibilities and this also extends to my pattern cutter who ran off to the village with zero notice halting my production and sampling for a whole week. He didn’t seem to think an explanation was necessary, nor did he think about his responsibilities to his team and work flow, he simply shrugs his shoulders.
I find this way of working difficult to understand as I think in Britain people do feel relatively responsible for their jobs and their colleagues. I can’t imagine simply not turning up for work or not paying attention and not listening to my boss.
Incompetence takes on a whole new meaning and so does yoga – my coping mechanism!
Bubbly
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