Good afternoon, it may be Thursday but everyday this week seems like I'm figuring one day ahead of what it actually is. Today while at work, started a conversation with one of the supervisors that I work with about start times in the morning. She was coming in at 6am the first couple of weeks in May that she transferred into our dept., but now it's more like 8am and she has a bit of a drive from Upland everyday and she hates starting that early.. So I mentioned that I get up at 3:50 to get going and be here in the office by 5:50 everyday if not earlier.. She asked my "why" did I need to start that early as so many of the other office admins start later or have more flexible schedules.. and I didn't really have an answer for that other than that was the bid time when it came open. I certainly didn't know the schedules of the other admins in anyway, and the wheels started churning.. We were talking a little bit more about the pros and cons of starting at 6am but that it takes a lot out of you to get to bed early and then in the afternoon you feel somewhat crappy.. and that they have things that come up in the office in the afternoon that they could use my help for and I'm already gone.
She then asked if I'd like to start at a later time, that it would probably work better for them the supervisors as well. So we discussed that Mondays was still a good day to come early but perhaps 7am and then Tuesday-Thursday start at 9am-4pm.. and I was like wow that would be great.. It will be a win win for all sides. I'd be able to go back to living like a normal person who can choose to get up early if they want but not be forced into it.. I've been now working in the LA area facility for UPS since March 2011 and the schedule has been hard on me in many ways as the job is an early start 5 days a week, it is fast paced and stressed filled with more to do than can be done each day.. I don't do well with leaving things undone and left on the desk for the next free minute to dissect it from a tight schedule already. Yet it has in a sense filtered now into "being okay" in so many other places in life at home, lack of motivation by the time I get home is what it really is.
Yahoo ~ Tomorrow is the first day of going into the office late, but that is because of the July 4th holiday causing the payroll to close earlier that usual so that employees can be paid on Wednesday, I will have to work late.. but it's already like a normal day.. Now I did work it into the negotiations that I can be flexible with the start times if I should want to get off early, I can work the old hours..
I'm already planning to get back into walking again before work like I used to.. maybe look up my old walking buddy but at least get out there and walk at the beginning of the day.. cuz waiting til the end is no good.
So YAY~!
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