There was a time when I was pregnant and working a 12 hour shift from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. when I had a couple of training classes to attend to. The training came all of sudden that caused a conflict with my schedule. I had two trainings that were back to back delaying my lunch until 7p.m. This angered me because I was 7 months pregnant and hadn’t eaten since 8 a.m. As the hunger pains grew, it became nearly impossible for me to wait any longer. After the training was over, I ran to my supervisor and started to vent. She didn’t empathize with me at all, looking at me like it was my problem which in turn, caused my anger to rise and I left work for the remainder of the day.
In the future, I don’t want my anger to trigger and I would start by understanding that it was not intentional for them to give me a late lunch. If training does interferer again, I can possibly ask to reschedule it to another day. I am sure that if I was pregnant and haven’t had a lunch and I wanted to reschedule it, it wouldn’t be a big problem. If I am not able to move the training to a later time, the next step would be to avoid acting in manner that could be seen as emotionally unstable. I would need to openly express my concerns on how angry it makes me when I feel that me needs are not being met.
I could have been more assertive with my supervisor and expressed my feelings to her and how she made me feel when she blew off my concern. Being assertive would have prevented me from walking out on my shift and creating an immature and irresponsible perspective of my behavior. When you act immature or irresponsible, it tells others that you are not acting in a professional manner and may lead towards termination. These are just a couple of things that I could have done to change and prevent my frustration from escalating. It is important that I develop a deeper understanding of life. Issues will happen, people will continue to make mistakes, and there will be times of...