Marathon Days

I had to chuckle at how it played out. I was having a good laugh with someone and Karma decided she would demonstrate her sense of humor as well. I don't think she's very funny.

I strolled into work yesterday morning at 9am and everything seemed to be going smoothly. There wasn't a mob of customers overwhelming my two employees there. The workload in the back seemed manageable considering we've got someone on medical leave for 7 weeks. The center was mostly clean, albeit a few spot here and there I decided to touch on before I began my day in earnest. Overall, the morning was shaping up finely. I looked to one of my employees and asked "Is it a good day?" He replied "Yes sir!" I responded "Yes it is. Do you know WHY it's going to be a good day? Because I said so." This apparently got the attention of Karma. My employee bounced back with "Yes sir. What the boss says is what goes." Here was my biggest mistake. "Yes, it's like the movie 'Dogma'. If I were wrong, the universe would actually begin to collapse in on itself and life as we know it would end."

*BEEEEEEEEEEP: William, you have a call on line one.* comes from the intercom. One of my two people working in the evening was calling in sick. Seriously, it was that fast. I was dumbfounded by how quickly Karma decided to punish me. You see, dear reader, when one person is out on medical leave and another calls in sick, I am the only person who can cover. I worked from 9am until 10:12pm. In some work worlds, working 13 hours may not seem as painful as I imply. However, 13 hours on your feet, back and forth with a 9 minute lunch dealing with an impatient public (with some being nice and some not) face-to-face is an extremely long day. I made it a point to look at what time we left because the team member closing with me remarked that she'd never gotten out that early before.

Hopefully, today will be better. I will not feed my own ego, even in jest. For my own well-being, I may not let others feed my ego. I really don't want to run the risk.

Wish me luck. ;)