It
was weird to work a Saturday again, but nowhere near as unpleasant as I had
expected. When you work weekends all the time (as I used to) you forget how
nice it is to have them; then when you have them off all the time (as I do now)
you start to take them for granted, so going in yesterday reminded me of two
things. No.1 – it’s really nice to not have to work on a Saturday, and No. B –
it really isn’t that bad when you have to.
With
less staff in, I had to do some customer-facing ‘proper’ tasks for a change,
and I must confess it was nice to be doing something ‘on the floor.’ When I sit
in my little office doing my little things I feel glad to be locked away and
hidden from the outside world, but when I have to step into the light and talk
to a few people it reminds me how much quicker time passes when you’re working
harder. I do like interacting with my fellow humans, and I forget that generally
they tend to be very decent and very pleasant. One unfortunate aspect of being a
manager is that I normally only have conversations with customers who are
pissed off and making complaints. So I start to falsely assume that everyone ‘out
there’ is the same, but of course they’re not, and yesterday showed me that.
So I might
adjust my working schedule a little from now on, so that I can actually spend a
bit more time out-and-about alongside my employees. They might hate me for it,
but I’m sure it’ll help me get a better understanding of what their worklife is
like, and therefore I can be a better manager for them. And let’s be honest –
even complaining customers are more fun to deal with than the Wankspeaking Self-serving
Middle Management Scuzzbuckets I have to deal with from the office.
And
now I’m going to stop typing about work, because IT’S MY DAY OFF!!!
RC 7-4-19
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