Oscar Trelles

How well does your employer know you??

Do you think your employer knows exactly what you do in the organization? do they know about your potential? Does your boss know what to ask from you? I have to ask these questions, because yesterday I had this conversation with my boss:

Lady Boss: Hey Oscar, are you busy?
Oscar: Yeah, but you can interrupt me at any time.
Lady Boss: So, we are going to buy this web site from our competitors... but I think most of it is Flash-based. Do you think you can handle it, or is Flash something you can't work with?
Oscar: ...
Lady Boss: ?

I couldn’t articulate a word, and although I think I didn’t move a muscle on my face, I noticed how her expression changed from ‘confidence’ to ‘what the hell did I say?’ during that couple of seconds…

Oscar: First of all, the first thing you wanted me to do when I came here was to fix and finish some Flash projects left undone by my predecessors. If it was up to me, I would have kept on doing Flash and only Flash.... so it is YOUR fault that I HAD to learn PHP and re-familiarize with UNIX environments to keep the job!! Thank you for that, now I have more value added, but if you are getting more Flash stuff, I WANT IT!

Funny? maybe for you… but I felt like even if we have developed certain level of friendship, she really doesn’t know what kind of work I do. Or maybe is just that she doesn’t know exactly what Flash is