A lesson on noticing people

As an intern, you will be thrown in the middle of people wanting to be noticed by you and people who forget who you are, thankfully at my small location, people seldom forget who the one college-aged girl who likes to dress up is. However, it is very important to notice people, whoever they are. I definitely feel a bit sore whenever my buddy or my manager asks if I got an email that was sent to every other manager and I have to reply no. I feel like, albeit unintentionally, that other managers are forgetting about me, forgetting to include me, which is a respect issue. On Friday on of the temporary employees did not follow procedure when a new hire came to the employee entrance. The new hire is supposed to wait in the front, a measure of security. When it was realized that this temporary employee let a "random person" walk around the building, they more or less got chewed out for their mistake. Later that same morning, this man was literally just holding the handle of his ceramic coffee mug, when the cup portion gave out and shattered all over the tile floor. As I helped him pick it up, he (of course) cut his hand on one of the edges of broken ceramic, a first aid that must be recorded. As I saw him in the breakroom during his lunch I went out of my way to ask if his day had become any better. He looked forlorn and replied that it hadn't. On my way out he looked up and told me one of the most sincere "thank you for asking" 's that I had ever heard. I like to think that this one act of noticing something small about someone made his day just a littler better. Things like this are important. You never know how someone feels outside of work, or even during work for that matter. Always take time to say hello and become sincerely involved in getting to know a person.