Thursday, February 23, 2006
So, I've woken up severely hung over, sick, not been able to walk from sleeping 25 hours, in a place I don't recognize, with a girl I barely remembered and lots of other bad ways but none of them compare to the incredibly crappy sinking feeling I had this morning.
I come to, blink a few times and notice it's lighter than it usually is when I wake up. Being blind as a bat and not being able to read the alarm clock across the room, I reach down to find the cell phone plugged in next to my bed. I struggle to focus and check the time:
10:21am
I work at 9am.
I have a signed contract that states I will not be late to work.
I can be fired for said infraction.
Heard for probably a three block radius:
"F#&K ME!"
I think the only time I've been out of bed quicker was the time lightning blew half the bark off the tree 20 feet from my bedroom window.
I mean, completely dislike Idiot Boss, and close to hate Boss' Boss, but I do like the company I work for and I certainly like to HAVE a job. It's not slacking if you don't have a job to slack off from ya know?
Thirty five minutes of commute later, all I could really think of to say to IB was "So, am I fired?" Yeah, I can lie if I need to, but in the current situation, if I show up late and don't have a doctor's note, police report, severed limb or a death certificate, I'm pretty much screwed.
I get to work, walk straight to IB's office to find a note saying he was in training all day. Ok, take back that "whew" people. This isn't a small company, it's a pretty high tech facility. I have to swipe my bar-coded ID tag when I come in and open the RFID keyed doors to get to my desk. Plus, there are cameras trained on anything resembling an entrance. I think they install the laser employee "motivation" system next month. heh.
I decide the best thing to do is have lunch with the guys because, well, it might be the last one. Well, that and I grovel better on an full stomach. After getting some brain food I decided the only thing I can do is sit down and fess up to Boss' Boss. This is the same person who when I brought up my issues with IB basically said I should shut up and do my job or find a new one.
I walk into her office, knock, and say: "I screwed up." I fess up to being late, explain that somehow, even though I have a paranoia about my alarm clock going off so I tend to check it three times before falling asleep, it somehow managed not to wake me up. I told her I knew that with the agreement I wasn't supposed to be late to work or meetings and whatnot and knew this was a bad thing. There was talk about trouble sleeping and how The Director had sleep issues as well and was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. There was talk about working on working on adjusting my schedule to coming in earlier and whatnot. There was other chit chat too, but I know you're all waiting at the edge of your seat for this:
"So, am I going to be fired?"
"No, people make mistakes, but this obviously can't happen again."
The "whew" I told you to take back earlier? I give you permission to release it now.
Holy crap! She got a soul! It's a Miracle!!! She did mention my talk with The Director in our conversation so I wonder if that did more than I thought it would. I'm not sure what happened but I'm just happy I wasn't forced to trade in the title Slacker for unemployed involuntarily. I shall work to slack another day.
So yeah, not a great way to wake up.
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*Music Update*
So I was hoping to get you all a Wednesday Wist today, but unfortunately I suffered more damage to the Slacker Music Library than previously assessed. I thought it was about a 30% loss but it turns out to be about 70% I did manage to restore most of it today, but will have to let the WW slide till next week when it will be extra special for Audio Visual week. Anyway, have a good day all and keep slackin!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 7:03 PM,
8 Comments:
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At Thu Feb 23, 07:23:00 PM,
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"I have a signed contract that states I will not be late to work.
I can be fired for said infraction."
I would NEVER work anywhere like that. You couldn't pay me enough. Fuck that - work should be fun, not strict and structured. Happy employees do more work.
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At Fri Feb 24, 08:17:00 AM,
Esther said...
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That's crazy! I'm glad things worked out but I didn't realize any company was really that strict. I mean, I have strict hours - but they're flex hours so that if I'm late, I just stay late.
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At Fri Feb 24, 08:41:00 AM,
OzzyC said...
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I don't think that every employee has a signed contract saying they won't be late... just the slackers who are consistently late, and manage to get so high on the boss' shit list that said slacker ends up on the company's work improvement plan. Correct me if I'm wrong Chief.
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At Fri Feb 24, 11:01:00 AM,
Unknown said...
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Dude- that's a pretty hard core policy!
Sheesh!
Glad it worked out!
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At Fri Feb 24, 12:20:00 PM,
Porq said...
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Yo Chief,
It's Friday and I'm commenting on your post...
I like going to work and I'm happy to hear that you'll still be going to work.
BEING UNEMPLOYED SUCKS!!! I did it once with two youngun's. REALLY SUCKS.
Happy to hear you fessed up to the fact that you were late and the other comments about working for a company that "STRICT" really doesn't know the facts about you totally screwing up and NOT getting fired to begin with!!
Oh yeah, by you working, you're putting money into SS that I'll be collecting pretty soon!!
COOL!!! Keep working!!
OINK
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At Fri Feb 24, 03:17:00 PM,
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Confession is not only good for the soul, sometimes it inspires people you cut you some slack.
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At Sat Feb 25, 11:27:00 AM,
Leesa said...
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Wow..I've done that before. Supposed to be at work at 6, and wake up at 9. And I was the surgery assistant! I didn't get fired, but they weren't too pleased :)
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At Sun Feb 26, 12:56:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Cap B - Yeah, well I put myself in taht position. A ltitle TOO much slacking ;O)
Mr. Fab - I'm usually not late for anything I care about, probaly is i didn't care about my job for a while...
Pieces - Yeah I know :O(
Pieces - Yeah i do have to update my links
Esther - We have core hours we have to be there for and can work around those... i jsut took a few liberties with my time far to often.
OzzyC - No correction there, you nailed it ;O)
Kellie - yeah well, it will go away soon! And yeah I'm glad it worked out.
Porq - You better enjoy that SS while you can, I have a feeling I'm not going to get the chance when I get grow up! ;O)
Delmer - Damn Skippy!
Leesa - yeesh! yeah that'd be bad. luckily when I'm late it's jsut 3D modeling that suffers.
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