Ol' Reliable!
I really should dust and vacuum my room before I head off to work. But I have only 2 hours to get ready and have lunch, and I don't think I can squeeze in the time for some extra tidiness.
Plus tomorrow I don't have to be in until 5p, so I could just do it tomorrow. Yeah, I'll just do it tomorrow.
At least I took the trash out.
I have a visual shift today, and though I don't want to say it, especially since I spent so long putting together a plan to make sure we're all on board with communication and organization, I have no clue what I'm doing today. Or at least I'll have no clue until I get to work and start following the plan I set out for visual tasks, then I'll have some clue. But I just found it kinda funny. All that planning for what? A more organized cluelessness. But once again that is just me doubting myself, but finding humor in it.
Ok, let's get on the ball, write today's prompt and get on with my work day.
Day 19: One way you can help a friend.
I don't like to brag about how I help my friends, and the majority I don't realize it is helping until my mom points it out. I mostly do things for my friends because a) I want to and b) that's how I keep my friends?
Wait, no, that's wrong. I would like to believe the people who call me a friend is because of how great I am rather than what I do for them, but part of me feels that in order to keep them, friends, I have to do stuff. I don't know, it's messed up way of thinking about things. But that stems from my low self-esteem thanks to years of having friends and relationships where advantage has been taken of me.
Anyways, let's put my issues aside for a moment, and let me tell you about helping my co-workers, who I all consider friends, yes even the few I don't like... ok maybe just a few of the few I don't like.
Back when I worked at the Gap in Miami, as well as when I worked at the Gap in Winston Salem, I had a number of coworkers who either lived near me or on my way home. And for whatever reason, some didn't have rides to get home and would have to resort to public transportation or Uber (We didn't have Uber in Miami at the time I was working there). I saw that as stupid since I had a car and could easily offer a ride because a) it was a decent thing to do and b) it wasn't out of my way.
Seriously, the friends in Miami lived a few blocks down from my house, and the friends in Winston lived on the way home (well everyone lived on my way home here, I was driving to Greensboro).
Now I find myself living a few blocks from the store, so I can't really say that someone is on my way home to give them a ride if they need it. But this town is so incredibly small that there is no reason not to offer or give rides. I have one coworker who lives at the university, so when she can't score a ride home, she knows she can ask me and that I will say yes no matter what.
To me, that is helping. And the best part about it is this is something that I only had to offer once and my friends know that they can rely on me because of it, and I am more than happy to help out that way. To me, there is nothing worse than being considered unreliable. If you are not a reliable person, then what the hell are you doing?
So yeah, that's is one way I can help a friend, by being reliable.
I also never cancel on a friend when I make plans, oh and if I had a dollar for every friend who canceled on me after making plans, I would have enough to buy some new more reliable friends.
Seriously, it hurts so much whenever you make plans to do something and the friend flakes out for whatever reason. I guess they just don't realize how much it hurt.
A meaner more vindictive me would turn around and do the same thing to that person, but instead, all I do is just not make plans for the future with them. That sucks almost as much. Which then also explains why I that person who double and triple checks everything I do with people to make sure plans aren't canceled at the last minute.
So yeah, just be flippin' reliable.
Plus tomorrow I don't have to be in until 5p, so I could just do it tomorrow. Yeah, I'll just do it tomorrow.
At least I took the trash out.
I have a visual shift today, and though I don't want to say it, especially since I spent so long putting together a plan to make sure we're all on board with communication and organization, I have no clue what I'm doing today. Or at least I'll have no clue until I get to work and start following the plan I set out for visual tasks, then I'll have some clue. But I just found it kinda funny. All that planning for what? A more organized cluelessness. But once again that is just me doubting myself, but finding humor in it.
Ok, let's get on the ball, write today's prompt and get on with my work day.
Day 19: One way you can help a friend.
I don't like to brag about how I help my friends, and the majority I don't realize it is helping until my mom points it out. I mostly do things for my friends because a) I want to and b) that's how I keep my friends?
Wait, no, that's wrong. I would like to believe the people who call me a friend is because of how great I am rather than what I do for them, but part of me feels that in order to keep them, friends, I have to do stuff. I don't know, it's messed up way of thinking about things. But that stems from my low self-esteem thanks to years of having friends and relationships where advantage has been taken of me.
Anyways, let's put my issues aside for a moment, and let me tell you about helping my co-workers, who I all consider friends, yes even the few I don't like... ok maybe just a few of the few I don't like.
Back when I worked at the Gap in Miami, as well as when I worked at the Gap in Winston Salem, I had a number of coworkers who either lived near me or on my way home. And for whatever reason, some didn't have rides to get home and would have to resort to public transportation or Uber (We didn't have Uber in Miami at the time I was working there). I saw that as stupid since I had a car and could easily offer a ride because a) it was a decent thing to do and b) it wasn't out of my way.
Seriously, the friends in Miami lived a few blocks down from my house, and the friends in Winston lived on the way home (well everyone lived on my way home here, I was driving to Greensboro).
Now I find myself living a few blocks from the store, so I can't really say that someone is on my way home to give them a ride if they need it. But this town is so incredibly small that there is no reason not to offer or give rides. I have one coworker who lives at the university, so when she can't score a ride home, she knows she can ask me and that I will say yes no matter what.
To me, that is helping. And the best part about it is this is something that I only had to offer once and my friends know that they can rely on me because of it, and I am more than happy to help out that way. To me, there is nothing worse than being considered unreliable. If you are not a reliable person, then what the hell are you doing?
So yeah, that's is one way I can help a friend, by being reliable.
I also never cancel on a friend when I make plans, oh and if I had a dollar for every friend who canceled on me after making plans, I would have enough to buy some new more reliable friends.
Seriously, it hurts so much whenever you make plans to do something and the friend flakes out for whatever reason. I guess they just don't realize how much it hurt.
A meaner more vindictive me would turn around and do the same thing to that person, but instead, all I do is just not make plans for the future with them. That sucks almost as much. Which then also explains why I that person who double and triple checks everything I do with people to make sure plans aren't canceled at the last minute.
So yeah, just be flippin' reliable.
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