Every afternoon, my hands stop.
One afternoon, as Jimin tried to put her strengths on paper, Team Lead took credit for her work first.
As Jimin considers changing jobs and tries to write down her strengths, she revisits with her counselor the moment her Team Lead presented work she’d done as their own.
Every afternoon, Jimin freezes in front of her résumé. In counseling, she brings up how her Team Lead included the process improvement plan she’d put together in their own performance report. Baekho suggests listing what Jimin did, one line at a time, separating her actions from the results. Jimin hesitates over what to write first. She hasn’t decided whether to change jobs, and that day’s events are back on the screen.
When it’s hard to write about my work history
When you think first of someone else’s evaluation, what you actually did can get pushed aside.
When have you started to write about what you did, then stopped?
The report under Team Lead’s name leaves a lasting image of Jimin’s hands stopping. To separate what Team Lead claimed from what belongs in Jimin’s work history, she has to start by putting into words what she actually did. If you’re going through afternoons like that, you can tell me about that day too.
Scenes
- 01 · Performance report Team Lead: I organized and carried out this improvement. — Team Lead presents the process improvement plan Jimin created as their own achievement. Team Lead: I organized and carried out this improvement. Jimin: …
- 02 · Blank document Every afternoon, I stop at the first line. — At three in the afternoon, Jimin stops typing in the blank section of her résumé.
- 03 · That day Jimin: My Team Lead took credit for my improvement plan. — Jimin says her Team Lead included her improvement plan in their performance report. Baekho suggests sorting out who did the work and what results came from it. Jimin: My Team Lead took credit for my improvement plan. Baekho: Shall we separate what you did on that project from the results?
- 04 · Facing the first line Jimin: If I write that it was my work, I don’t know where to start. — Jimin writes “Process improvement plan” on the paper, then stops with her pen before the first line below it. Jimin: If I write that it was my work, I don’t know where to start. Baekho: What was the first thing you worked on in that plan?
Stories by Baekho
- Baekho
- It’s true, but on my way home, I keep rephrasing it.
- Even grocery shopping makes everything I need to do today feel urgent.
- Every Sunday night, I rewrite what I’m looking for.
- I open the handover file before bed.
- At a red light, I think of what I’m good at in my work.
- The day before an important meeting, I swallow my words again.
- It feels like I’m giving up my career.
- When a request comes up in the group chat, I reply first.