Week 4: Day 4-5

My teammates and I spent the last two days of the week mapping Tarik’s information while preparing for an interview with Shirley. When I walked into Shirley’s office, I was surprised to see a small, gentle lady who was working diligently on the paperwork covering her desk. When we sat her down and asked her what role she played in the process. She explained the entire process to us in less than ten minutes. Clearly, she knew what she was talking about. There was no way that this could be the person that Tarik described to us.
When we asked her how we could help complete her task, her response to us was, “Develop a clearer form so that there would be less errors in the paperwork that I receive.” I found her answer startling. I was surprised that she did not throw Tarik under the bus. She must have known that he said bad things about her. When I asked her if Tarik sends her incomplete or wrongly completed forms, her answer to me was, “When I get a bad form, I send it back to Tarik for him to fix it so that no one can say that I made any mistakes.” Her response brought a smile to my face. It was refreshing to see someone hold themselves to a higher level of class and dignity in the workplace.