six sigma training
Added on Jun, 30 2008 at 10:03 AM by Sarah
I noticed something funny this week when I came home after having not seen my family for almost a year. We went through the usual couple of hours of catching up with each member of the family and discussing what our plans are for the coming months. We talked about school and they asked me what kinds of things I had learned. Then the next morning when I got up it was as if I had never left. We all began to act as if this is the way it had always been and everyone fell in to their old routines. Over my classic breakfast of a waffle and two eggs, dad began to talk about his job as if I had been talking with him about it all year. HE complained about the people working under him and said that his job would be so much easier after his six sigma training was done. I was stunned to hear him say that because I had studied it in one of my business classes this year and so we had a lot to talk about. I think that was the moment that things seemed to change for the routine of things. I could see my father changing his tone and stature because it was like his little boy now understood the world to a certain degree. I juts thought that that was so cool.
Before I had gone to college the usual morning conversation was just between me and my brothers because we didn't really have anything to talk to our father about. He is not much for small talk and so he would sit silently while we would chat about our school projects and the girls we really liked. His business attitude continued all this last year as I was at school. When I would call our conversations were extremely brief and really a way for him to make sure I didn't need any money or resources at the moment. I never did so at that point the phone would go back to mom. This week we have been talking a lot more about things we never have. I think that some sort of barrier has broken down inside of him now that he views me as an adult with real problems and considerations. It's a good feeling to be validated.