Gawain
Footballguy
Have had to work 3 of the past 4 Saturday's. I don't like making my managers do it and my boss lives 90 miles away. Our logistics team goofed, promised sales no Saturday deliveries this week and then had to walk it back to 20% Saturday deliveries at 9 PM Thursday night...so, I'm working today as well.
Kids have a Dr appt, tennis lessons and a soccer game and I've committed to my wife to be available to help. Run in at 6AM, get trucks on the road, update our tracking system and zip out to pick up a kid for tennis. Emails and texts start coming in while I'm trying to watch her tennis lesson, the first one I could make in a couple of months. Dash off replies as I get home and then bundle kids up for soccer. My middle one is challenging. He's smart, would rather watch tv than go to soccer and emits ear-piercing screeches when any part of life is "not fair."
As I'm walking him through soccer practice (which he did very well through), the texts and emails start coming in from my director and COO, looking for information that is readily available through the tracking system that I updated at 6:30 AM. Get back to the house, quite stressed out now, I majorly overreact to something the middle kid did. Wife and I quickly review how long I could be out of work with the wife, review how I acted towards my son, look at how fast the kids are growing up and how much I'm missing.
Hope back in the car to go back to work to deal with guys coming back, call my boss and tell him once I'm back I'm resigning. Sent it out 30 minutes after returning. I can swing 18 months pretty easy, but figure I'll be itching to do something after 6 or so.
Kids have a Dr appt, tennis lessons and a soccer game and I've committed to my wife to be available to help. Run in at 6AM, get trucks on the road, update our tracking system and zip out to pick up a kid for tennis. Emails and texts start coming in while I'm trying to watch her tennis lesson, the first one I could make in a couple of months. Dash off replies as I get home and then bundle kids up for soccer. My middle one is challenging. He's smart, would rather watch tv than go to soccer and emits ear-piercing screeches when any part of life is "not fair."
As I'm walking him through soccer practice (which he did very well through), the texts and emails start coming in from my director and COO, looking for information that is readily available through the tracking system that I updated at 6:30 AM. Get back to the house, quite stressed out now, I majorly overreact to something the middle kid did. Wife and I quickly review how long I could be out of work with the wife, review how I acted towards my son, look at how fast the kids are growing up and how much I'm missing.
Hope back in the car to go back to work to deal with guys coming back, call my boss and tell him once I'm back I'm resigning. Sent it out 30 minutes after returning. I can swing 18 months pretty easy, but figure I'll be itching to do something after 6 or so.
