Remote Work Week 3
So it's the last few days of March and it's also start of Remote Work Week 3. So far so good for the first 2 weeks, but then again each week has had it's challenge(s) haven't they? Today I will admit that I didn't sleep well last night, quite likely a by-product of the negative juju I encountered (or is the word allowed) with Lisa last night. You KNOW you're going to encounter it. You better expect it and be mentally and emotionally prepared. And I wasn't. I didn't protect myself. Even with that exercise I did in the afternoon yesterday about the octahedron to concentrate your energy was something I didn't bother to try. Which is why I know I still need to continue the work until it IS second nature. In the meantime, I "clock in" to work by 8 AM this morning and I was glad to actually take a shower and clean up. Something I hadn't done all weekend. And then I posted a pic of me doing my Zoom meeting with the Business Continuity group that now meets on Mondays. That's on top of the Huddle that happens daily at 4 PM... and the morning huddle that the Executive Team do. How do they get any work done if all they do is huddle every day? Simple answer. That's because we the middle managers get to do all the work. Even this morning I'm still wrangling headphones for the Telehealth initiative that is supposed to kick off tomorrow. And I'm directing traffic for my team to help out at the Health Centers to erect a triaging station at the parking lots. The somber message from this morning's meeting though was that reality has seemingly hit home when some of our patients are getting their test results from a couple of weeks ago and some ARE testing positive for coronavirus. Suddenly it's more real when it's on your doorstep. And suddenly the discussion turned into how to protect ourselves and our staff. And how to allay their fears and concerns. I told my staff to have protection with them at all times when they go to the Health Centers. That would be gloves and hand sanitizers. And not to touch anything. And to be very careful. I know I know I do see the numbers and I do see healthy people don't actually die from this thing. But then again I would probably classify Larry and Noriel as immuno-compromised somehow. It's not that people don't get this thing, it's that people don't KNOW they're actually immuno-compromised. And so I passed on the cautionary to my team and kept on with the day.
Today Lisa called at lunch asking to drop off Johnnie at 4:30 PM as she wants to do a piano lesson in Pasadena. I wonder if she gets it that she is one of those immuno-compromised people and the safer it is for her to simply stay in. But she's bugging. I get it. Although she seemed to have forgotten all about the tension between she and I last night, or has decided to sweep it under the rug, I was still wary about shooting anything negative in her direction. I agreed to anything. Johnnie over at 4:30? Fine. Better even. The Afternoon Huddle got cancelled anyway due to the Board Meeting. Of course she had to raise my stress level anyway by not getting there until 5 PM and not bothering to even answer my phone calls or texts. She just has to be the one in control doesn't she? I wonder if she even sees that she does that all the time. I guess not. I didn't care when I saw Johnnie's smiling face. He even asked me why he had to stay with his mom for so long. I have to ask that question all the time. Immediately as he walked through the door I gave him dinner (penne pasta and chicken sausage) which we wolfed down. And then he was still hungry so I got him some chicken McNuggets. Don't tell ME he doesn't eat. Maybe he simply holds on to his hunger while he is at his mom's. With me, he not only can eat all he wants, he can watch videos too. And since he asked to see Tumble Leaf tonight, then Tumble Leaf it was. I didn't care what he did. I was just happy he was with me now. And happy Lisa isn't around to stifle our natural dad-son joy. We watched videos, horseplayed pretty roughly like we do and then on to bedtime routine by 9 PM. He didn't even play in the shower. I guess he was tired. Who knows what Lisa did with him. But he was asleep before 10 PM. And I started to as well. But then I woke up. And caught up on this journal. Remote Work week Monday was quiet. And my team, in particular, bent over backwards again to get our jobs done. And Johnnie is back in the fold. All was good.
So it's the last few days of March and it's also start of Remote Work Week 3. So far so good for the first 2 weeks, but then again each week has had it's challenge(s) haven't they? Today I will admit that I didn't sleep well last night, quite likely a by-product of the negative juju I encountered (or is the word allowed) with Lisa last night. You KNOW you're going to encounter it. You better expect it and be mentally and emotionally prepared. And I wasn't. I didn't protect myself. Even with that exercise I did in the afternoon yesterday about the octahedron to concentrate your energy was something I didn't bother to try. Which is why I know I still need to continue the work until it IS second nature. In the meantime, I "clock in" to work by 8 AM this morning and I was glad to actually take a shower and clean up. Something I hadn't done all weekend. And then I posted a pic of me doing my Zoom meeting with the Business Continuity group that now meets on Mondays. That's on top of the Huddle that happens daily at 4 PM... and the morning huddle that the Executive Team do. How do they get any work done if all they do is huddle every day? Simple answer. That's because we the middle managers get to do all the work. Even this morning I'm still wrangling headphones for the Telehealth initiative that is supposed to kick off tomorrow. And I'm directing traffic for my team to help out at the Health Centers to erect a triaging station at the parking lots. The somber message from this morning's meeting though was that reality has seemingly hit home when some of our patients are getting their test results from a couple of weeks ago and some ARE testing positive for coronavirus. Suddenly it's more real when it's on your doorstep. And suddenly the discussion turned into how to protect ourselves and our staff. And how to allay their fears and concerns. I told my staff to have protection with them at all times when they go to the Health Centers. That would be gloves and hand sanitizers. And not to touch anything. And to be very careful. I know I know I do see the numbers and I do see healthy people don't actually die from this thing. But then again I would probably classify Larry and Noriel as immuno-compromised somehow. It's not that people don't get this thing, it's that people don't KNOW they're actually immuno-compromised. And so I passed on the cautionary to my team and kept on with the day.
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