I'm Still New Around Here!

I'm not perfect, but I'm doing my best, every day.  I'm still new here!

Hiya, Big People!  Happy Friday to you! 

Well, ya know, it's pretty tough to be pertineer five.  It really is.  

Bein' pertineer five is like havin' a job that you've been at for a little while.  Everybody knows your face and your name and where your desk is.  You're a whiz at making single-sided copies and answering the telephone, and alerting your co-workers to the presence of donuts in the conference room. 

But then, somebody needs double-sided copies made, collated and stapled, and even though you were shown how to do this, and ya watched the training video, you haven't done it much yet, so you're less than slick when it comes to executing the task.  The copies come out with portrait on one side and landscape on the other side.  And then the next crack ya take at the task, you get only one-sided copies that aren't in particular order, and the staple's right in the middle of the page. 

And your co-workers and your boss lose their minds over it.  Because you should know how to do it.  You should be good at it.  Even though you haven't done it very long, and it's kind of a tricky task to master.  They don't care.  You messed up.  They're not gonna let you hear the end of it for a long time, and they're not gonna let you have any of those donuts in the conference room until you get your act together on those double-sided and collated copies. 

That's what it's like to be pertineer five, Friends.  It's kinda rough.  Big People forget what it's like to be little.  They forget that even they had to learn from the ground up.  Everybody was a beginner at some time, and some of us are beginners for longer at certain things.  I wish people would remember that.  I wish people would know we Pertineer Five Year-Olds are just doin' our bests.  We aren't tryin' to be petulant.  We're just tryin' to figure out the world the best way we know how.

You remember that, Friends, would you?  This weekend, if somebody gets something wrong, don't jump all over 'em.  Give 'em the benefit of the doubt.  If it's a Little Kid, give 'em the benefit of the doubt, too.  Even Little Kids are fightin' battles you don't know anything about. 

Be kind.

I love ya lots, Big People!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!