Some Days...I Love My Job!

So, the class I'm teaching at work is awesome! Let's face it, no one likes to sit through a training class - especially when the material is as dry and boring (LOTS of reading from the overhead, not a lot of action). I do my best to make it fun and enjoyable and to mix up the training a bit, but it's hard. This class I'm training right now though just made me feel great! I told them a few days ago that today was the first annual "Training Appreciation Day" for Convergys because I would be a little late to class for it so someone else was coming in to teach them the quality part of the job. We all thought it was silly, but we went, had sandwiches and cake, and had our bosses say nice things about all of us and give us lanyards and zippy things for our badges to go on. It was fun, gave everyone feel goods, then it was back to class.

Well, when I got back to class, I was setting up my computer and my class came up and said, "All right everyone, we have a quick announcement to make!" I was a little leary (usually these end badly, don't ask) but helped them get the classes attention thinking that they were probably going to discuss tomorrow's pot-luck for our training graduation party. Instead, they said, "Because today is Training Appreciation Day, we thought that we should recognize the best trainer in our business, and that's Mindy!" I was a little surprised at this, as I wasn't expecting it, but I was even more surprised when they gave me a bag of caramel Hershey Kisses and a big envelope. Inside the envelope I got 2 cards! One is huge! I'ts about 1 ft by 1 ft and it's one of those cards that says "A long, long, long time ago..." then on the inside it says, "You were born." but then under it they wrote in "And Destined To Be Our Trainer!" and when you open it, it plays the Star Wars theme song! It was so cute! Then the other card was a standard "Thanks!" card, but still. Everyone signed both cards and it was just so stinking sweet. Some trainers get gifts and cards and stuff like that from almost every class they train - I really don't get them all that much. Usually classes will just say that they liked me a lot and thank me for their training experience, but really I've only ever had 2 classes do something like this. It just felt nice to be appreciated after getting so burned out over the last few months.

Ha ha, a bunch of them even stayed after class just to talk, and when I told them to go home and get some sleep, they said, "Well, training is going to be over tomorrow and we don't want to leave, so we're milking every second of it while we can!" I finally had to kick them out after they stayed half an hour after the end of their shift (keep in mind that class ends at 11:30PM!) Anyway, it was just very thoughtful and made me feel good.

So good news! I'm going to my parents house for the weekend for my Mom's birthday. While I had to sell my Twilight tickets and Jon is missing his coveted BYU vs Utah game, I'm way excited to spend time with my family. I plan on taking some pictures and using their computer to post them! Yay! We'll see if I have time though! Ha ha.

Well, that's all for now. Goodnight!

M.