‘Soaped’
That is a term I coined to describe how we were reprimanded by our immediate boss. That would be the equivalent of ‘sinabon’ in Tagalog.
Hehe. Anyway, it was sort of a wake up call on our part, especially on my part as a trainee, as I do have a tendency to slack off when the going gets easy. And it wasn’t much of what you’d call a tongue-lashing as in a way, it was, as I said, a wake up call, as if we were held in the shoulders and shook up from our stupor. It made me realize that I still had an uphill climb ahead as to the things that I would have to learn as a novice drilling engineer, and the wide range of topics that I still have to cover (*sigh*). There’s still bit hydraulics, well casing cementing, and not to mention completion testing. Sorry if I might sound like I am babbling here. LoL.
Anyway, I am glad that I was ‘soaped’. Sure it may be an ego buster. Cmon, whoever would want to have their boss giving them a mouthful of how dismal their performance is, right? However, It’s always the realizations afterwards that count. It’s not in the falling down but in the getting up part.
Time to turn up my gear into overdrive..
Tags: constructive criticism, drilling engineering
November 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Soaped as in… *wink*