Author: chrissy

Fun Friday: Putting Myself Out There At Work

I decided to come up with an improvement idea once a month or whenever the opportunity arises to share with management at eork.

Usually I keep my mouth shut and my ideas to myself, but then I wondered why am I doing this?

I’m not going to stay small at work anymore.

Last week I shared with the head of shipping an idea to keep things moving in one area. I didn’t get to do it, but that’s ok. Someone on third shift is doing it. The main point is is that they listened and implemented my idea.

That makes me happy.

I thought maybe I could share some ideas about organizing parts of the department that are messy and unorganized. Why not offer to do what I love to do?

The next project I’m going to suggest is to organize the copier ribbon and other copier stuff. Right now it is under a table and under a shelf. I would like to see it on a shelf.

I feel being bolder and sharing my ideas with management and following thru if they like my idea can only help me in my side hustle. Communication wise. Fear wise. Talent wise.

I’ll let you know next I share an idea and what happens

That Work Thing: Did You Know?

As I was doing research about That Work Thing I learned a fact that I never knew.

The reason we have an eight hour school day is to prepare us for working an eight hour work day.

Did you know this?

I didn’t.

I wonder if my parents did.

This kinda pisses me off.

It’s bullshit.

No wonder no one questions it. It’s always been there. Silently lurking in the background.

I wonder what else I’m going to find.

I know we need structure and stuff but this is ridiculous.

That Work Thing: I Don’t Know

I’ve been thinking about how I l want work to look like for me.

I’m not really sure.

A job that fits me, my personality, wants, desires, dreams, and whatever else I might need.

But I know it’s not all about me and the things that I need.

There’s a lot of variables that go into This Work Thing.

We’ve been doing this 40 hour work week for so long can it be changed?

Maybe. Maybe not.

All I know is that I don’t want to fit in anymore. Or make my boss happy.

I want to be happy.

I want to do what is best for me work wise but is this even possible?

This Work Thing is so engraved in our lives.

It’s time to pick it apart and see what the parts are.

What works. What doesn’t.

And I can go on from there.

Maybe I won’t change That Work Thing, but at least I will change how I react to it.

And for now that is good for me.

Fun Friday: This Work Thing

I’m going to rant about work for the next couple of weeks/months.

Short rants. Long rants.

I’m not always happy at work and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about work lately at work..

My grammer won’t be the best. I might swear.

I’ve been thinking about the following things:

Why I have been at my job for 26 1/2 years.

Who created this 40 hour work week anyway

Is it working?

Why do we think we have to work any way?

Why don’t we push pack?

What if everyone had a job they loved?

I’m going to dump what is in my head into my blog.

I’ll post the 1st post next week.

I’m excited to write about this issue.

Yeah!

No Expectations

I was disappointed again today when I saw only new leaves and no flowers.

I was on vacation from Wednesday til Monday and I expected all of these flowers to be opened when I got back

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But why I am I pushing it to grow the way I think it should grow?

Why can’t it grow the way it wants to grow?

Why do I have expectations for a plant?

I don’t like people telling me what to do so why am I telling it how to grow?

It may never look like it did when I got it and this is ok.

From now on I’m just going to be grateful I have a beautiful plant that I received from a wonderful coworker.

No expectations.

Signs From Heaven

Back in the day my dad made me lie and sign up for an Marlboro points account (I think its what it was called) so I could get free Marlboro items from sending in the UPC codes on the cigarette packs.

The lie was that I had to check the box that said I smoked.

I was 18 or 20 at the time.

Can you believe I’m still getting coupons from Marlboro mailed to me after all this time? Even after moving four times I still get them in the mail.

As many of you know I hate Father’s Day, but getting 2 mailings from Marlboro in the mail the past week as made it a little bit better.

I believe the two mailings came to let me know he’s thinking about me.

It warms my heart, but my heart still hurts because he isn’t here. I miss him every day.

Happy Father’s Day in Heaven Dad. Love you and miss you.

I’m Going To Try Again

Here’s what the plant I received from a coworker for my birthday looks like now.

There’s five new blossoms and a couple new leaves.

I wish I would have taken a picture of it when I received it. It had pretty pink petals. It was really pretty.

I love the new blossoms. They kind of remind me of birds beaks. They are so cute.

Hopefully when it blossoms I will get the results I’m looking for and I can show you.

My fingers are crossed.

Not What I Expected

I couldn’t wait to get to work yesterday to see if the shoot on my plant opened.

I was sadly disappointed.

I forgot about the lights in the building were turned off over the long weekend because the plant was closed for the holiday so the poor little guy didn’t get any light

I might have to take the plant home over the 4th of July weekend.

The shoot is opening but not like I thought it would.

Maybe next time…..

Fun Friday: A New Shoot

A coworker gave me a beautiful plant for my birthday couple of weeks ago.

It sits on my desk at work and I look at it 100 times a day.

I’m so excited because it has a new shoot.

This seems so silly to me because I grow plants every summer and I have a plant in my house.

But this isn’t the same.

I get to watch the plant grow almost every day because it is right in front of me.

I can’t wait to see the shoot open. I’ve been waiting a week.

I’ll post with pics when it opens. Maybe there will be more shoots to open.