09-26-2012, 09:49 AM
Yesterday was also illustrative of the changes that are occurring. I left the office at 4 to rest before picking up my son from his mother's house for dinner, shopping, and his Boy Scout meeting. Just as I was fading into a nice nap in the car, my work cell phone rang. There was an urgent approval required that would not wait until tomorrow. My job doesn't typically have emergencies, so this was a surprise, and I was angry. Someone else's failure to plan became my emergency to handle. Typically, I spend several hours to several days researching and interrogating before moving a request from my queue to the next stage. This one needed to be done in under an hour.
I was getting more irritated as the evening wore on, because this was preventing me from spending time with my son because the request came in poorly-documented by someone who knows better.
I got my part done, and cleaned up the entries so the next guy in the process doesn't have the difficulties I did, leaving the office two hours later. I was able to get my boy to Scouts on time, but I missed the time spent socializing with him.
Every day, my boss becomes more and more of an irritation to me. This issue that came up last night was not a genuine emergency: it was pure crap. He received the first phone call, and he should have told them that it was too damn bad, that we don't do this outside of business hours. Just typing that out reminds me of Shannon's recent post where he said, "Life is much happier when we learn to have no expectations."
This highlights that I still have expectations of him. That I expect him to be someone he is not, and to behave like someone he is not. And realizing that is lifting a weight off of me.
I was getting more irritated as the evening wore on, because this was preventing me from spending time with my son because the request came in poorly-documented by someone who knows better.
I got my part done, and cleaned up the entries so the next guy in the process doesn't have the difficulties I did, leaving the office two hours later. I was able to get my boy to Scouts on time, but I missed the time spent socializing with him.
Every day, my boss becomes more and more of an irritation to me. This issue that came up last night was not a genuine emergency: it was pure crap. He received the first phone call, and he should have told them that it was too damn bad, that we don't do this outside of business hours. Just typing that out reminds me of Shannon's recent post where he said, "Life is much happier when we learn to have no expectations."
This highlights that I still have expectations of him. That I expect him to be someone he is not, and to behave like someone he is not. And realizing that is lifting a weight off of me.
Fear is a liar.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway