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REJECTION IN THE WORK PLACE

Since we are touching on all aspects of rejection and how it affects us on a personal and professional level, I thought we would explore what rejection can be like in the work environment.
A couple of examples that I relate to you will be personal and a couple of them will be stories from friends that I knew of in the past. The last example I give will be on a positive note and what I learned from that employer.
The first story I would like to relate to you (and I use the word relate, because you may relate to her situation) is about Jennifer. She was a young friend of mine around the age of 18 years old who had gone to work for a cable company. The company employed a total of 16 individuals, so it was not a large company, but was growing. Jennifer was in the administrative part of the company. She had learned many aspects of the business quickly and took care of many different tasks. There were duties that Jennifer performed that no one else knew how or when these duties should be done.

I met Jennifer and knew several of the other employees because of obtaining advertising from the owner on a regular basis. On frequenting this business on a weekly basis I heard many of their woes about how the company was ran and who did what or did not do what. Jennifer was one of the employees who helped me if the owner was not there or if the office manager asked that she set me up with the next week's ad. This took time out of her other duties. In order to put together a decent ad, you need to take at least a half hour to an hour to get the desired results to assure that what ever is put into print is worded correctly and does not leave any loop holes for the customer to use. Jennifer would be trying to do this particular task and answer the phone or run rebate sheets back to the bookkeeper, or handle a customer with a complaint. Sometimes a technician out in the field needed something and you guessed it Jennifer was that gopher. Frustration city for this young lady! On top of everything she and the office manager did not get along and more duties kept being added to the ones Jennifer already had to take care of on a daily basis.
Finally, one day Jennifer blew up at the office manager and told her it was impossible for her to do any more than she already had as duties and why doesn't the office manager do her own work instead pushing it off on her. Needless to say, this did not go over so well and Jennifer ended up in front

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