Week 4

Just a Little


I am about at the close of my fourth week at the new workstation and I have all but settled in, which is good. I feel accepted, needed and part of a team. This is sort of a unique—I have always worked but rarely felt part of a team and really needed. For the most part I have done labor in the private-non profit sector or State and quite frankly due dates really did not seem to matter , or even if I was at work or not.

The work got done, eventually. I always tried to be timely since many times people counted on me but there was still that bureaucracy, especially where nothing really mattered in the end. For the first time I am at a position to where it really seems to matter if I am there or not—it really matter is we are all there because people are going to call and expect phones to answered. I can tell when the phone are going FF (fast and furious) it matter having another operator in the system to take calls even he is the new guy and he is a little slow.

This week I had a medical appointment (sitting consultation) with my therapist (PT) and I had intended to take the whole afternoon to make sure I had the time to go and get home since I would be leaving directly from physical therapy. I also was to meet with our staff meeting from my old office and I told the folks at my new office about my plans I could tell this is not the way things go. I for sure was excused because I did not know the formalities and I guess there are some formalities like they would like two weeks notice before a scheduled leave or absence is to happen, not just a couple of hours—so I was for given but two weeks come on! Who the hell structures there life two weeks out? Again, this environment is somewhat new to me—the staff really counts on you being there and I understand more now then ever. What was really kind a of interesting was that all the meeting I had planned collapsed yesterday morning and the whole taking time off was a moot point.

Gloria is back today, so we are almost back to full staff if not at full strength, I’ll be interested I will continue to take calls unsupervised or if I will slip back into some type of training mode. I really am anticipating a wonderful weekend.