Look What “Thought” Did

           Working can be tough and you can lose track of time on your days off or even on the days you thought you had off. That day started out good. Hanging out with my friend chilling out listening to come music and crocheting for my senior project. Really truly I have a lot left to do but that was how it always is for me so we were quiet. My friend was making a blanket for her brothers birthday and we were listening to some Panic At The Disco. The song was quite upbeat and was very enjoyable call me biased but I feel Brandon Urie’s voice is quite amazing and pleasurable to hear so, of course, we had it blaring. We loved the song called silver lining from One of his newest hit albums he and I had been super excited about. Lately, we had been listening to a TON of the album and wearing it out.

       Then BAM! That ringtone coming from my phone Next thing I knew my boss is calling asking why I am totally a half hour late to work. My friend is over hanging out and I practically am about ready to pass out when he called. Imagine this I rely on my parents to drive me back and forth to work and they are a half hour away that makes me a whole 45 minutes later. I get to work running in and my work shoes are in the locker I was provided. I haven’t seen my boss I looked around for a bit. Soon enough I find my boss and I knew he may be upset I had run the idea through my head multiple times about what I would say and I spit out the worst I am sorry speech that I had ever thought of. The apology was pretty terrible or at least I thought it was anyways it seemed okay enough.

            Throughout the day I apologized multiple times for being late. Thankfully my boss is understanding but at this point, I felt like a moron not that I don’t always feel that way but that’s beyond the point. He gave me the disappointed look and told me it was okay. I was happy that he accepted the fact that I was late. Now what is even more embarrassing about being late is the fact that I had been crying a half hour earlier and showed up with slight red and swollen eyes. What happened was I had looked at the wrong schedule and thought to myself how nice it was for my boss to give me the time off that he had provided me and then some especially a whole weekend. But I accepted the fact, in reality, I actually didn’t have that Sunday off that I had hoped I had. Sike that was taken away as quickly as I mentally dreamed it up looking at the next week schedule that I had the whole weekend off on. This is when I thought to myself. Wow, this is a new thing for me. I had never been late and that is the worst thing about it, in fact, I am always 15 minutes early if possible so it was weird for me to be a whole hour late. I had to figure out how to deal with this fact so.

I took some time to come up with false reasons why I was Late but truly nothing sounded good enough. I most certainly `couldn’t lie because well lying is rude and can get easily caught either way so its best not to take the time to create a long story of why I was so late to work. I came up with some pretty crazy stuff, but it was time to accept fate. I was late because I looked at the wrong schedule. I apologized to my boss and coworkers telling them the full truth accepting what I did. Strangely they nodded and continued on with their day muttering un auditable stuff under their breaths. The day continued to get worse with lots of my own mistakes and I worked hard to get through them but overall I learned my lesson and will now input my schedules into my phone calendar to avoid confusing myself again and making myself late. That is the lesson I learned from my mistakes. How to make solutions quickly and efficiently and to ensure I find new ways to track my schedules. How I would solve this again is by looking at the schedule dates and making sure its the correct schedule. If it happens again I will try to get to work through a faster route to work that takes less time to get there. I will also maybe call to double check if I see that its a sudden change I did not notice before.

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