Collision of two worlds

Finally, I’m going to get employed in my company as an internal employee. Until now, I have been employed as a developer outsourced here. It’s a significant promotion for me as my payroll will increase.

I’ve spent all my working-day yesterday on an internal training. HR staff introduced company structure, employee’s duties and benefits. I must admit I was quite impressed that the training was quite fun. I was ealier afraid it would be long and boring and it would make me horribly tired but fortunatelly it turned out to be very well prepared. No information overload, a little integration fun etc, you know, presentations that talk a lot about how cool we are, how an employee is important, how fun is to reach goals together. The whole thing impressed even me. I think all other new guys got feeling they’d been enrolled in a big, sussessful international company and the world was at their hands. I mean, one could get impression that all here is a big, amazing adventure.

That was quite funny as I met my team friends few times during several breaks and we talked about some issues we face in our projects. On every break I reminded myself about all that everyday absurds and buerocracy and that impression the training created just went away. An image of a big adventure vs everyday reality. Everytime they collided I realised the importance of motivating people. But this motivation cannot be just pure promises and cool phrases. It’s got to be specific and real. The employee must experience an adventure they talked about because he will see the difference when expectations hit the reality evetually.