Our last days at work were somewhat difficult. Mostly because of one of our mentors who were cranky to us every step of the way. She didn't communicate very well with other mentors, and we got lots of mixed messages from her. For example about bringing and taking away the towels. We suppose to bring fresh towels from the laundry few times a day, but the laundry lady isn't always there so sometimes we have to call the laundry room to check if she's there. Many times after calling the laundry (with no answer) we waited at the reception, and The mentor came with sort of disappointed (in us) face and asking if we could get the towels, before even asking if we (with the help of other mentor who were sitting next to us) tried to call the laundry or anything.
Many times she also asked to take used towels to the laundry, even though we can't because of the small amount of them. We got instructed at the laundry that we absolutely can not bring half full trolley of towels so the wash won't go to waste. But The mentor were insisting almost every time that we have to. Once we refused so the laundry lady won't get mad, so The mentor took the trolley by herself. Other mentors were telling us the same thing, that we shouldn't take the half full trolley etc. And they also told us that when The mentor gets something in her head, it's hard to get it out, she has her own temper and so on. So we didn't take it very close to heart but it didn't feel very nice.
She also ordered us to do things that were impossible to do, for example to get something from the closet, and she spoke with that "are you stupid?" tone in her voice when that task was impossible to complete (because the item we supposed to get were missing). So she just continued with "What can't you understand" attitude, until other mentor came in the room and informed that "Btw I already took that from the closed this morning". Then after an "Oh?" and with no apology The mentor just continued with her own things. And same attitude she showed to the customers. She never praises or shows any sort of respect to us. Only good thing she does sometimes is letting us home earlier.
And then we heard that is we don't do treatments then we have to watch, everything time. We can't learn anything from just watching? And we couldn't use the billing system anymore because someone made a mistake few times, so we were completely useless the rest of our time. Mentors asked their manager if we could finish our work earlier because of two other students from Spain. There were no space for all if us anyways so we finished and went home on 25.3.15
Even though our day started again with The mentor talking to Maiju with sarcasm we got to go "home" and finish work.
I'm going to miss two of our mentors, they were sweet and professional, and those German tourists complaining abut the "don't throw water on stones" sauna policy :) By the way, I don't think Maltese people realise that sauna heaters are made with an idea to throw water on them, they were saying, that because of the electricity no one can use water with it. Oh well. :D With positive attitude we are going to enjoy our last days on Maltese islands :)
I'm going to miss two of our mentors, they were sweet and professional, and those German tourists complaining abut the "don't throw water on stones" sauna policy :) By the way, I don't think Maltese people realise that sauna heaters are made with an idea to throw water on them, they were saying, that because of the electricity no one can use water with it. Oh well. :D With positive attitude we are going to enjoy our last days on Maltese islands :)
Arina
A picture I took on my way to our flats from work, rainy day.
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