Back at work on site today. One of my part-timers has
two children and both of them have gone down with coughs, so she’s having to do
the 14-day quarantining thing. She phoned me in tears worried she’d lose her
job, so I explained to her that it’s all good. She ‘felt awful’ for dropping
her shift on someone else at short notice, so I just said I would cover it
myself and she shouldn’t give it another thought.
I’m not fishing for kudos here, I’m just pleased
with myself for the way I reacted. There was a time – a more selfish, less
bizarre time, not too long ago – where I would have been quite cold with her
and then moaned internally about the inconvenience and then made someone else
work the shift, but today I was just concerned about her and her wellbeing, and
it was a lovely feeling to be able to alleviate her worries and send her back
to her family relieved and ready to support them.
RC 7-4-20
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