So I found myself in somewhat of a pleasant predicament today. My temp worker, the Amn, ran out of tasks to do today. Now, he didn't really run out, because there were a few loose ends on tasks I'd already assigned to him that he needed to tie up, but the fact of the matter is that this kid is hungry for things to do and ways to help out, and he's seriously challanging me to look hard at my workcenter to see what little odds and ends haven't been taken care of. I'm trying my best to marry up the tasks that I give him with training that he'll need to receive anyways as an information manager, and I think I've got a new project to throw at him.
His energy though is quite refreshing. It's causing me to raise my level just to make sure I don't lose this kid. It's forcing me to do what i haven't really had the time to do, audit my area, and look ahead for future problems. Another benefit that came from all this is a new idea for how to do the personnel system. I haven't had any new ideas on how to manage this problem in almost 4 months, but from having to explain how we do things to the Amn, and just hearing him ask those simple why questions, its really given me a chance to step back and re-evaluate how we do things. Not only that, but its given me new projects to give to him in the process.
Due to classes and other events tomorrow morning, it looks like it will just be me and the Amn in the office for a few hours. I think I'm going to just take advantage of the time and really pick the kids brain. He's a smart guy, and i have the feeling that if i just talk to him and try to go over the big picture of how we do things in my office, his perspective could give me some new ideas and revamp a few processes. At least very least it will lead to me modifying our database a little.
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