Basically I'm a consultant, and offered to do a cooking demo (fake show) at our cluster meeting this month to let my director take a break and to get feedback on my recruiting/hosting bids.
Half way through one of the other consultants stopped me....said I wiped my knife on the same tea towel I had wiped my just cleaned hands on. She went on about due diligence etc etc right in the middle of my presentation and completely threw me off. I was so embarrassed. I've been on the team longer than the rest of the people that were in the room, and I felt completely humiliated.
I know she was trying to be "helpful" but bloody hell, it's nerve racking enough trying to do a cooking show in a limited amount of time, to a group of your peers and then have someone come out with a remark like that. (and I KNOW I've seen my director wipe her knife on her tea towel...and that she only ever has one!)
I feel like crap, and don't think I'll be offering to do a demo again. I didn't really get much positive feedback at all, which makes me wonder if I'm any good at this. The thing my director had to say to me was that I touched the top of my nose 4 times...we figured out afterwards I had a wee fly away hair that was tickling me. Fair comment but couldn't people find something NICE to say before ripping into me???? I was up last night until 2am because I couldn't sleep I was so nervous about this!!
Fwiw though, I did do 6 hosting bids and 8 recruiting bids...why I'm not getting any recruiting leads I'll never know! Maybe I touch my nose too much!
Half way through one of the other consultants stopped me....said I wiped my knife on the same tea towel I had wiped my just cleaned hands on. She went on about due diligence etc etc right in the middle of my presentation and completely threw me off. I was so embarrassed. I've been on the team longer than the rest of the people that were in the room, and I felt completely humiliated.
I know she was trying to be "helpful" but bloody hell, it's nerve racking enough trying to do a cooking show in a limited amount of time, to a group of your peers and then have someone come out with a remark like that. (and I KNOW I've seen my director wipe her knife on her tea towel...and that she only ever has one!)
I feel like crap, and don't think I'll be offering to do a demo again. I didn't really get much positive feedback at all, which makes me wonder if I'm any good at this. The thing my director had to say to me was that I touched the top of my nose 4 times...we figured out afterwards I had a wee fly away hair that was tickling me. Fair comment but couldn't people find something NICE to say before ripping into me???? I was up last night until 2am because I couldn't sleep I was so nervous about this!!
Fwiw though, I did do 6 hosting bids and 8 recruiting bids...why I'm not getting any recruiting leads I'll never know! Maybe I touch my nose too much!