I finished a diploma of information technology last year and had to do 120 hours of work experience, which I did with our local councils IT department where I didn't do too well at all, I didn't work well, I was late, and I even ended up crying at the end in front of the man in charge there because I was so behind in my work. They couldn’t wait to get rid of me before that, the guy was like ‘that two weeks holiday you get in the semester counts as part of your 12 weeks here’ and another worker said ‘I have to take a vacation because of you’.
Anyway I managed to pass that diploma somehow and thought the IT field wasn't for me, and this year wanted to do something in fitness, a fitness diploma at my same college. I have to 40 hours of work experience for this course and I decided to do it at the fitness centre for the council because I’m a member there, its close and better than a corporate environment with some personal interest in working there later on.
This is where I was so stupid to make a dumb mistake. I spoke to the coordinator the fitness centre and he told me that I would have to talk to the woman in charge of work experience in personnel. I thought I would save myself having to do the OH&S induction for the council which would only have taken one hour. She would have forgotten me completely by now and wouldn't have spoken to the IT department about my performance anyway.
Then being the idiot I am, I told her that I already had completed an OH&S certificate for council and she said that it was only to be valid for one year, and so I said I needed to check the date on it. She then asked what that was for. I told her that it was that I was ‘going’ to do work experience for the council in the IT department but I wanted a change of career, so then she was like 'so you've already done work experience for the council?', I could have even said no at this point and better d**n yet, said nothing about that stupid certificate, but I said yes. Then she straight away asked me for my last name because I only introduced myself with my first name.
I knew I was screwed, what an idiot I was, I should have known that she would check with the IT department with how I went there. Now I'm going to get an god awful reference and not get my work experience at the council’s fitness centre, which I am already a member there, I live close to it, and I have some interest in working there when I finish, and now it is all gone.
Anyway, I sent her an email with the details she wanted, my contact details, course details, and available times and days for her to supposedly send to fitness coordinator for approval, which he would have accepted because he sounded fine with taking me on through the phone call we had.
The irony is that I found that stupid certificate by chance lying around when I was working in the IT department and took it home and kept it. Not only did I not save that precious hour it would have taken to do the induction again, but I totally screwed myself from ever working there and I have to find some other god awful private fitness facility to work in.
I'd thought about this briefly before and wasn’t sure, but what an incredibly stupid decision to make. Can't stand how stupid I am. All I had to do was not mention that expired certificate and I would have been fine. Can’t stand how stupid I am.
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