Celestial Tech Limited

An ambitious young lady applied for a job with Celestial Tech Limited. She was attracted by the Management-Trainee Program advertised in the official Celestial Tech website.

The young lady got the job, and to my surprise, without being asked, she was put under my care. What to do with this young lady, with her education and past career records not being related to job I was hired for. On top of that, though being advertised, there is no such thing like a structured management-trainee program in Celestial Tech.

Besides my main job I had volunteered to generate an Employee Handbook and Company Policies & Procedures. Actually, I was focusing on the Policies & Procedures that I regarded most urgent, however, a few days before the young lady started her job with Celestial Tech, two incidences caught the attention of the CEO in conjunction with our company cars: One morning the service vehicle was not washed (after the service e team had returned from an urgent service mission late at night), and the CEO was not happy with our log book of another company car. I was also not happy with that logbook that I was given by the company, but to my understanding this was the way the management wanted to have the car utilization recorded, and I put this topic on a back burner until other more important policies had been created, published and implemented.

From one second to the other, the CEO changed the priorities and instructed me to work on the car-handling policy with highest priority, gave me a company car log book of a Japanese company, of course in Japanese, and requested me to have it translated.

If how we are handling company cars is or highest priority in this company, so be it, and I started drafting the policy. With the new young management-trainee lady joining, I thought, company policies are actually management matters, so why not get her involved in writing our company policies and I let her start with the policy of highest priority, the handling of company cars.

The whole day, the young lady was working on the policy, and in the evening, she submitted her draft to me. The next morning, the young lady did not show up for work, and we never heard or saw anything from here again. This was a very short management-trainee program.

Based on her draft I completed the policy, and of coursed I did not have the Japanese log book translated, as I know pretty well what needs to be recorded in a log book for company car utilization.

Once completed I submitted the Company-Car-Handling Policy to the CEO for his comment and his approval for publication and implementation. Despite repeated reminders during the two months prior to my departure, I never got any response from the CEO about the policy. Apparently, his priority had shifted in the meantime. Unless a miracle has happened, the Company-Car Handling Policy will not have been implemented until today.

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