Whoopi Goldberg Advises AOC To 'Sit Still,' 'Learn The Job' Before 'Pooping On People'

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337. I saw that happen a few times at work.

A new person coming in, who is going to show them all how to do things right. When in actuality, she or he didn't know anything. A failure to recognize that you don't know what you don't know, and a failure to understand that the others there have arrived where they are by trial and error, trying different things....and were successful, which is why they are there!

Those new people who were arrogant and disrespected those who were doing the hard work for years before the newbie got there...they didn't last long.

I had a young male relative who got a job at KMart years ago. He was fired within two weeks. Apparently, he went in and started "advising" the supervisor that the inventory wasn't set up the right way, the procedures weren't efficient, and the like. He had never worked in retail before. When they fired him, they told him he should try another line of work, that he should never work in retail.

Then that same young male worked for my father's bingo parlor. The young man was his SIL. In a short time, my dad told him he wasn't needed anymore. He came in and started telling my dad how to do this, how to do that, etc. The young man was wrong about everything, and it was irritating...the arrogance and presumption and lack of insight into knowing that the young man didn't know anything about how to run a bingo parlor.

I worked for years at a prestigious large law firm. We had a female tech supervisor start once. She had never worked at a law firm before. She came in and immediately started changing procedures, without speaking with the hundreds of attorneys or their staff. She didn't even know that some of the procedures she instituted had been tried before, and had failed. The new procedures interfered with the flow of work. She was fired within six months.

Rule for when you're new: Recognize you don't know the company yet, or the people, or the history there. You are new. Lie low in the beginning and work on understanding the procedures, the people, the atmosphere. Make friends. Don't become a hated new person. THEN you can start tipping your toe into changing things that have not been tried before and which you think would be better. To do anything else is foolish, IF the goal is to accomplish better things at work. If, OTOH, the goal is to have your name on everyone's lips, do the former.