Do you want people to correct you?

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So long as people do it in a respectful manner, I would want them to tell me if I'm not doing something correctly. There I no way I can fix what I am doing wrong if people don't tell me about it, and then I just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I've actually had the same thing happen to me. At a temp job I was doing, I was supposed to be made a full employee eventually. Then they just come out and said that I was doing a terrible job and that they had nothing left for me to do and I should go home. If they had told me what I was doing wrong when it first started happening, I could've fixed it. They let it drag out for months without bothering to talk to me about it. A similar thing happened with a group of friends. I was friends with them for nearly a year and then one day they had a sit down with me, sort of like an intervention. They all told me all the things that they didn't like about me and what behaviors I did that they thought I should change. I was so shocked because no one ever said anything about it before and some of the things they brought up happened several months prior to that. I had thought these people liked me the way I was and if I had known they weren't going to accept me as I was, then I wouldn't have invested so much time into those friendships. Maybe if they had talked to me when they first had concerns I could've made an effort to change some things. When they did finally talk to me, there were so many things about me that they wanted me to change, that I didn't think it was worth it and I wouldn't have been me anymore if I had made all the changes they wanted me to make.