Telework and $4.15 gas

....how I love thee...


So, we have some new policies that allow me to telework more.

For me telework = productivity!

I am interrupted no less than 5-6 times an hour at my job. People need answers, they need to know what to do next, they need to know how to resolve a problem or to do some task that is the whim of the leadership.

At home, it is different. I can actually control my time a little more. I can take a five minute walk during the day - or 10, 20 or 30 - without worrying about how is expecting me to "be seen" in the right places. Yes, I still have meetings when I telework, but at least I can do other stuff behind the scenes if it isn't productive.

Ah well, I should be grateful. This new policy is coming along just at the right time with gas going over $4.15 at all the local stations.

This will mean more time taking direct routes instead of interesting routes around town and to work. This will mean more time at home and more productivity.

This is great stuff.

Guess I'd better get off this laptop and return to the work laptop (which sit side by side five inches apart) to keep up the productivity that I'm claiming here. (-:

If you get to be at home as your primary place of being each day, consider yourself lucky. You have SO much freedom that some of us are working toward.

Restless and cancelled appointment

Today I cancelled an appointment that I had made at a clinic that supposedly does every kind of test on you in one day. You know, kind of like those body scan places, except this is supposed to be for executives and the membership is good for a year. I was going to shell out a few thousand bucks and find out every possible thing that is wrong with me. When they sent me the packet for my visit it only showed them doing a couple of scans that I could easily get done through a doctor AND for a lot less! I cancelled the appointment and asked if they would spell out everything they were actually going to do like they had on the website. I haven't heard back from them yet. I must be one of those people they just write off. That's not a good idea. After all, I am blogging about it right now. I won't share the name until I give them a chance to explain themselves.

So, as a result of this appointment, I wasn't actually supposed to be at work today. I went in anyway. After two meetings and finishing 6-7 tasks that I had on my to do list....I just left the office around 1 p.m. It's a good thing that I didn't ride with the carpool today.

I'd been gone for over four hours and so the bug bombs I had put around my house had enough time to sink into the nooks and crannies. (I found one of those thousand leg bugs last night and I have no tolerance for little living creatures in my home). It is giving me a little bit of a headache though.

I've checked emails a couple of times and now I'm going on a walk. Sometimes I just need a mental break. It's just too much of the same every single day. Ugh. I've never been in the same job this long. But, it's stable and I should be grateful for that. Now it feels like this is an entry that should be about my job complaining blog (you have to ask me specifically for that address - it's hidden).

My boss may be surprised that I've taken some sick time this week, but I've got a few hundred hours saved up and I'm sure we are allowed to use some for unsettled minds, necessary relaxation and escape from Meyers-Briggs personalities that start with an E.

We'll see how it goes.