As for the vast crowd of readers that I have for my blog, you may not all be aware of it (if you live on Mars) but we MOVED almost three weeks ago. The move was a very difficult and rather traumatic one for me....in case you missed that as well! After living and collecting things for the 17 years that we have been married and lived in the Free Ferry house. And I really mean COLLECTING THINGS. I've told many folks that we are almost like some of the hoarders on the TLC shows, but we are at least "organized" hoarders/collectors. We typically save things in tubs and boxes with neat labels. However, when you move, it really does not matter. There are the boxes and tubs to be moved.
This is all to say that my life has basically been upside down for a number of weeks. Putting the house on the market was a lot of work because we had to clear out and "stage" it all. When it sold, we had to rapidly put everything into four storage units and move into a hotel for six weeks with only the most basic of necessities. Moving day came and we found ourselves emptying out the four storage units plus what was in the hotel room and trying to find a home for it all in our new house. Needless to say, it just doesn't fit. It's just as if someone took all of our boxes and tubs and shuffled them all up and them dropped them from the sky. There are STILL tons of boxes everywhere and things missing. (ex. my CAMERA!)
In my naive little view of the world and their understanding and compassion towards others, I sometimes fail to realize that not everyone "gets it"....and that was cleared up for me this afternoon. In my job, there is paperwork that has to be done each week and if it is not done then I don't get paid for that work. That's as clear as it can get....no paperwork in=no pay. I totally get it. For the most part I have been keeping up with it, but during the time at the hotel and now in the house with everything upside down, I have not been keeping up. I was definitely planning to get caught up over the next few days between cooking dinner on Thanksgiving and unpacking.
The people on my short list of those that don't get "it" and have a real lack of professionalism has found someone who was already on the list and now has a star by their name. Wow. What do you say when someone has a problem with four employees not getting their paperwork in on time and sending out an email to EVERYONE that works for the company, including the owners, to gripe them out and list their failures. Wow. What DO you say? If I had another job lined up I can tell you what I would say!!!
Unlike my typical self, I did not immediately respond and have yet to say anything to anyone up the food chain about this email situation. There were many things I thought about saying and doing, but I get "it"....I love my job and I can only hope that I can put this incident behind me, get the paperwork done starting at about 3am tomorrow and get it in. I've done it before and I can do it again. I can do it even without people that don't get "it" reminding me of why the two best words in my business are "I UNDERSTAND."
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I do understand. Love ya.
:-) I understand. I was two days away from being on the naughty list and was up till 1:00am this morning. Didn't get it done. Oh well. I bet that if the people who don't get "it" (but apparently are the ones who really matter) would ask your clients (the ones who we only THOUGHT mattered) they would find out what the most important part of "it" is. And, I know you're doing the most important part. And, i know I'm doing the most important part. God forbid we continue to try to live our LIVES outside of our JOB! Did your early morning get it done?
The early morning and working until 3pm did not quite get it done, but enough that we can keep the lights on next month. I still plan to turn the rest in on Monday morning. It really makes me sad that the job is reduced to all about the paperwork, when in reality it is SO much more!
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