Why seniors employees are always rude to fresh graduates or juniors?
I was having a chat with my sister yesterday and the topic of being a fresh graduate kinda trigger me to blog about it today.
Well, I have my own time of being a fresh graduate working in a company without experiences and striving to survive working in it, meeting with sarcastic seniors and saving my job at least. I understand how a fresh graduate really feels when they started working in some company.
Firstly, they are taken lightly as they have no experience in anything. And, when they started asking questions on how to do this or what to do for that, they will be harshly answered as well as treated rudely with rude remark such as, “it’s better that I do it than you asking me about it”. Seniors never think for a second to respect the fresh graduates / juniors. They never thought that some time ago, they were once a freshie. Well yes, perhaps some fresh graduates may not be as smart as seniors were when they were freshie but then again, it is a senior’s responsibility to groom the freshies up to meet with senior’s expected level, ain’t it? You know, like the mentor and mentee thingy?
No matter how busy a senior is at work, they shouldn’t throw out rude remarks or being a bitch about it and in fact, should be empowered enough to think on how to groom their juniors up so that they can help them to work on whatever the company is focusing on. Somehow, Malaysian’s companies are always lacking in good HR scheme to empower all their staffs. Seniors should always maintain a good and friendly environment that encourages discussion whenever necessary. However, people are always selfish, they wouldn’t share their knowledge, in fear of that their position is being threaten. Unless of course the freshies are just not build to work for the position (better find a more suitable job).
That is why, all of us somehow resent the place that we are working in because of the people.
Do you experienced before seniors from hell / resent any working environment or people when you were a freshie or even now?
