This past semester, I failed to successfully complete a task that was given to me at my job. My boss asked me to thoroughly clean all of the equipment at our office before his 30-minute meeting was over. Although the amount of equipment I needed to clean was a pretty large, I still should have been able to clean everything in the time I had before my boss came back. However, I got more focused on making sure each and every single piece of equipment was absolutely spotless rather than simply making sure everything was cleaned. Therefore, by the time my boss returned, I was not finished cleaning everything. When he came back to see that I was still cleaning, not only was he very disappointed, he gave me a pretty stern warning that if it happened again, I would not last at my job very long. After that, I was pretty disappointed in myself, but I learned from it, left it in the past, and moved on.
After failing to complete that task, I learned that everyone has different wants and needs and that they can be misidentified. In this particular scenario, I thought that my boss' main need was to have the equipment as clean as possible. However, what he really wanted was to have all of the equipment cleaned as quickly and efficiently as possible. In other words, he was more focused on the speed of the task being completed rather than the quality of it.
Personally, I have never been a huge fan of failure. With that being said, when it does happen, I accept it, learn from it, and move on. You learn more from failures than successes. Therefore, I think failures can be a good thing, as long as you learn from them, don't let them affect your performance and work in the future, and make the same mistakes again. Being a part of this class this semester has helped me understand this lesson even more.
Hey, your boss seems pretty strict saying his unspecific needs given to you before he left. Its good to hear that you learn from your failures, unlike you, most people will just give up or become frustrated. The best thing you can do is just keep going and get through it. Overall great job, your assignment was very clear and easy to read.
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