July 13, 2009

Post-Vacation Depression

I was just reading back a few posts to the day that I worked out, had a smoothie, and painted a room on my day off. It's so different from my day off today.

Today I watched TV for several hours.
Caught up on the computer for several hours.
Watched 2 Lifetime movies.
Ate cereal, a bagel, half an avocado, chips and a cup of soup and didn't work out.
And had an utterly negative mindset all day long!

But it really went downhill when my assistant called me asking if I thought we could do a delivery tomorrow. How should I know?! I've been gone since Thursday! You've been there the whole time! Do we have the product? How long will it take to get it tinted? Are you going to give me a heads up in the morning so I know what's going on? Why are you calling me?!

It completely shattered the delusion I had that he might be able to halfway handle things when I'm gone. Add that to the fact that sometime very soon he will be either: fired, given one more chance and then fired, or demoted to a different position at a different store. All three of which leave me to run the store by myself. And I might be losing my two borrowed employees on top of it because the assistant at their normal store let someone transfer and they need the help again.

I think I'm going to have some champagne and pretend I'm still on vacation for the next 3 hours.
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