I had this ... weird feeling in the middle of the night. So I reset my alarm for 3:30am and headed in to work at 5am. Only an hour earlier, but a good thing I did! On my "team" there are five of us hard working souls. And today, only two of us showed up. UGH. By noon I had my 10k steps on my FitBit and I still wasn't done with my day. But as I was working, I had this thought related to that "Wheels on the Bus" song the preschool kids learn. I can be the driver of the bus, and most days that's what I am. However, today I felt like one of the wheels. And I realized that the bus doesn't roll when there's only one wheel. It takes all four wheels -- and the driver of course! -- for the bus to actually go anywhere.
Just when we're getting caught up, two people call off work on the same day. Talk about two steps forward and three steps back! Makes me wish I'd gone and worked the entire shift on Sunday -- just to stay ahead of the game. The sad thing is, no one else feels the way that I do. They don't care if the work gets behind. To most, it's just doing a repetitive thing until "the whistle blows" at the end of their shift. No matter how hard I try, I just can't be that way! What made me this way, and so many of my peers not that way?
It can be very frustrating to a Type-A person to scramble to get work done, while others just ..... do their own thing, without a thought to what will happen tomorrow. Four of us covered for one of the guys to have an awesome wedding and honeymoon, he was gone from work for 3 weeks. We did extra shifts, stepped up to the plate, so to speak, and this guy comes back, works 2 weeks and poof! he had to call off sick? I know people get sick and really need the time off.... but some tend to call in because they have a hang nail. Or maybe it's the new PTO policy: after working 80 hours (2 weeks) they earned enough PTO to have a paid day off?
Thank goodness this Monday is in the bag ..... I'd like to bury it in the backyard now!
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