The Letter
RIGHT NOW!
What’s On: Court TV
Current mood:
Last week was one of the most difficult weeks I’ve had in quite some time. One of the things about my work is during especially humid times, people who hurt and ache, feel worse. With last week as balmy as it was, people were really miserable and I get to be one of the people they take it out on.
During these times, there is no making them happy and no matter what you for them, it won’t be enough. There were many semi abusive people to deal with and at times it grates on your own personal psyche. You just have to try to dust yourself off and move on.
By Friday afternoon, I had about all I could take and was just counting the hours until the weekend which couldn’t arrive fast enough even if it was going to be a bad one with all this stress and strain to take home with me. But things were about to take a strange turn.
My boss Pete took me in our office and told me he got a letter from an attorney who was a patient of mine a few months back praising me to no end and going on and on selling me two steps short of Jesus. Pete went on to tell me how much he loves having me work for them and what not. After a horrible week, I just broke down. It was more emotion that I could take for one week.
I told him how bad a week I was having and how nice it was to end it with some good feedback. I also told him how much I enjoy my job and the people here. Its a relationship I hope lasts a very long time.
I went home with a copy of the letter and shared it with my family. I went to bed that night around 11 pm and slept til almost noon Saturday, something I haven’t done since college.
It still wasn’t a good week, but it was somehow worth it.
What’s On: Court TV
Current mood:
Last week was one of the most difficult weeks I’ve had in quite some time. One of the things about my work is during especially humid times, people who hurt and ache, feel worse. With last week as balmy as it was, people were really miserable and I get to be one of the people they take it out on.
During these times, there is no making them happy and no matter what you for them, it won’t be enough. There were many semi abusive people to deal with and at times it grates on your own personal psyche. You just have to try to dust yourself off and move on.
By Friday afternoon, I had about all I could take and was just counting the hours until the weekend which couldn’t arrive fast enough even if it was going to be a bad one with all this stress and strain to take home with me. But things were about to take a strange turn.
My boss Pete took me in our office and told me he got a letter from an attorney who was a patient of mine a few months back praising me to no end and going on and on selling me two steps short of Jesus. Pete went on to tell me how much he loves having me work for them and what not. After a horrible week, I just broke down. It was more emotion that I could take for one week.
I told him how bad a week I was having and how nice it was to end it with some good feedback. I also told him how much I enjoy my job and the people here. Its a relationship I hope lasts a very long time.
I went home with a copy of the letter and shared it with my family. I went to bed that night around 11 pm and slept til almost noon Saturday, something I haven’t done since college.
It still wasn’t a good week, but it was somehow worth it.
posted by CuzzinDave at 11:30 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds like it was a very rough week. It's great though that you got that letter. Something like that can really make us feel like what we're doing is worthwhile and that we're appreciated.
From what I know of you and how you do the work you do, it sounds like you deserve a letter like that at least once a week.
That's great you got to sleep so much on Saturday morning. I think people need one day a week like that, where you can just sleep as long as possible with no interuptions. It does the body (and mind) good.
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