Seven Stages of an Employee

The seven stages that an employee goes through..

1. The excitement stage – you are new and you are excited to have a job and you want to get going! – A pretty short lived stage!

2. The Feel-good stage – you are just beginning to understand how things work (or you think they work!) and are in this blissful stage because people are encouraging and being nice to you – little do you know that your mistakes are being forgiven only because you are new and people are just giving you more time!

3. The confused stage – this is when everyone in the office “assumes” you have learnt the basics and are ready to take in more, so all the work starts getting directed to you and you don’t know where you are going!

4. The crazy stage – when you know pretty much how everything works in the office (and you do!) but you are still not the expert so you slip once in a while but wont agree you did coz you think you know better!

5. The experienced stage – When you know that you know better (and you do!) and yet you know that life is a learning process, but you can handle it!

6. The want to go stage – you are experienced, but you know you are not getting your worth and you start looking elsewhere for a better deal (better pay or better treatment or both!)

7. Experienced but crazy stage – you have surpassed all the above stages and still there. Now you know mostly everything but you know so much and you have reached such an age that you become a little crazy and start expecting everyone else in the office – the employees undergoing the different stages above – to know as much as you do!