Three questions to my readers.
I was completely surprised when I learnt that yesterday; "8th May, 2022" was another day slated out to celebrate our mothers, I'm guessing we'll still see and hear more about mother's day.
To all the lovely mothers on this great platform and to all the mothers all over the world, not excluding the wannabe mothers and the ladies:
"Happy Mothers Day"
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Today's blog.
Questions for my readers.
During PCS's class,
People
Communication
Skills.
The lecturer engaged her students in a discussion, and by "students," I was inclusive, it was based on different things and how to address colleagues and bosses in an office, I'll be writing on what she asked and the examples the students gave from their experiences.
She asked this question: How do you maintain a good rapport with a colleague that has chosen to be a terrible issue to you in your workplace?
A student stood up and narrated her experience.
When I was an SSC (senior secondary school certificate) holder, I was teaching in a big school as a class teacher, the organization brought in a BSC (bachelor of science) holder to be my assistant teacher, which was because; some schools deal mostly with the number of years one has, as an experience in the teaching field.
This lady was a class teacher and you know; as a class teacher, she's entitled to give instructions to the assistant class teacher, well she couldn't and that was because she felt it would look irrational to give instructions to someone who was not only older than her in age, but also older in certificate and qualification.
In her words:
I found it really hard to give her instructions, but I expected her to know her duties, this lady never assisted me in class, not in awarding marks on the scholars' notes, not in feeding, not in doing anything...
There was a day I asked her to please help me out with marking, I was so tired that day, I was expecting her to help, but unfortunately she surprised me when she said:
"I can't help you ooh, I thought you usually feel like you're the only one, ehn, go ahead and do it yourself, I'm not doing it."
It went on and on till it was time for parents to come and check out their children's performances. If you've taught before, you'll know that most teachers love such days. Generous parents tend to gift hardworking teachers with "cash, soap, food and just any other goodies."
The parents gave this SSC holder alot of goodies, but the issue here was that:
This SSC holder gave nothing to her assistant teacher, because she felt her assistant was just being too lazy and irrational. She felt it was time to pay her back for all her wrong doing.
The assistant class teacher went home with nothing...
Now the question here is, do you think the class teacher(SSC holder) did the right thing?
What do you think would have made the assistant teacher(BSC holder) act in such irrational way; refusing to assist the class teacher in taking care of the scholars, and attending to their needs?
And after debating on these questions, some people supported the SSC holder, while others felt the BSC holder shouldn't have been treated in such way, especially because the BSC holder had more qualifications than the SSC holder.
Infact some people went as far as saying that, the school should never had put a BSC holder under the supervision of an SSC holder.
In their words: "it's professionally wrong."
The next question was quite brief, infact it was given to us as an assignment. It stated:
You're an office manager, you're in the office and your boss; being a man, is inside his own personal office with his girlfriend and he gave you an instruction that: "no one should come into his office," suddenly the wife walked in, and the usual manner of the wife when she comes into the office is for her to walk straight to the husband's office without taking permission from the office manager.
As the office manager, what would you do?.
Well, to me though, I'll stop the wife and tell her that her hubby is in a meeting, or I'll stop her and make sure she doesn't have access into my boss's office and that's because, it was an order from my boss, and he clearly stated that he didn't want anyone to come into his office.
What would you do?
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These questions are really hard because most teachers are thinking if you say to them you are doing this thing in a wrong way as you devalorize them even if it is true. Most of these things are done in a private way means after the class lesson is ending then you go to the teacher and say: I think this could be corrected in this manner but not saying You are wrong in the correction by this manner as it has the practically same result as first.