This weekend at my work at my library, much of the training for one of my new co-workers was dropped in my lap. And while I am a very nice, and very thorough teacher, if my instruction is not taken with enough attention or consideration I can get pretty strict.
I have never seen the movie "Whiplash", so I will probably do myself no service by comparing myself to anything in the movie, a movie that I have merely seen clips of. And yet, lately whenever I am training in a new employee, "Whiplash" is the movie that comes to my mind.
"Whiplash" is about an aspiring jazz drummer who goes to the best music school in America, where his teacher (JK Simmons) is a monstrously demanding figure who extracts musical talent and skill through fear, demand, and intimidation. He is a ferociously demanding teacher who will settle for nothing less than perfection.
Just like me!
Well, I hope I'm not that bad.
But if my student starts questioning my instruction, or countering with "That's not what (insert manager or co-worker's name here) said." They will receive a long, ferocious, and withering lecture from me that will tear apart everything they ever thought they knew about library work, or managers, or the nature of the Universe. Hopefully all three.
And if they turn out to suck anyway?
I will be gone before the leaves fall again.
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