it has to do with kids coming out of schools/colleges and/or unis without having any idea of how an office works!
I was called in to help deal with a large UK Company which was being taken over and to sort out things connected with the Personnel Department (HR) and was landed with an (apparently) qualified girl, straight from Uni with a degree in psychology, sociology and God only know what-other-ology to do with HR.
I soon realised I couldn't find personnel files ... you know why?
Guess?
In a huge room full of files for thousands of people, she was filing stuff under their FIRST NAME INITIAL and NOT their LAST NAME.
Can you imagine the chaos????
She also used to wander off at any time of day for her lunchbreak - irrespective of who, if anyone, was in the office to take calls etc.
Totally UNTRAINED in Office ways - not a clue.
Mind you, when someone made a comment about that epic poet, Homer, the previous Admin girl thought they were talking about Homer Simpson, so there's no hope really lol
it has to do with kids coming out of schools/colleges and/or unis without having any idea of how an office works!
I was called in to help deal with a large UK Company which was being taken over and to sort out things connected with the Personnel Department (HR) and was landed with an (apparently) qualified girl, straight from Uni with a degree in psychology, sociology and God only know what-other-ology to do with HR.
I soon realised I couldn't find personnel files ... you know why?
Guess?
In a huge room full of files for thousands of people, she was filing stuff under their FIRST NAME INITIAL and NOT their LAST NAME.
Can you imagine the chaos????
She also used to wander off at any time of day for her lunchbreak - irrespective of who, if anyone, was in the office to take calls etc.
Totally UNTRAINED in Office ways - not a clue.
Mind you, when someone made a comment about that epic poet, Homer, the previous Admin girl thought they were talking about Homer Simpson, so there's no hope really lol