I had what you might call a small miracle last Sunday. I was
scheduled to work and I had a special project to do right off at 6am. On
Saturday my boss called me to let me know he was going to come in just for my
special project and then go home, because his boss had insisted. He didn't want
to come in that Sunday; he had already told me, but the work I was doing was
only going to take 30 minutes max. At 6am I started and was done in about 10
minutes. So I assumed my boss had taken off right after that, but an hour later
I saw him still in his office.
He said he would be leaving shortly. I went up and watched the
cameras and he literally tried to leave three times and each time as he got
ready to enter his truck, he stopped, and headed back to his office. Just before
each attempt he called the control room to tell them he was leaving. Something was keeping him there. Finally, he called me and asked if I had
anything important going on at work I still needed to do. I let him know
that I didn't. Then he said that he was going home and that I was welcome to go
home too at my leisure.
Now this is out of character for my Boss. He is normally the guy
that at 10am will say, "go around and see if anyone needs you today and if
NOT you can go ahead and leave at 5:45pm today" when you were scheduled to
work till 6pm.
It was great! I got to go to church with my family and I was able
to get ahold of some people that have been really hard to get ahold of, and I
even got to see our youngest take her first steps all on her own. I would have
missed it had my boss not let me go early. The next day I thanked him for
letting me go early and explained the highlights of my day. His response was,
"You mean I did something right!" He has had a hard time at work
recently and has been the direct cause of lots of roadblocks during this
maintenance outage. I fact some at work were saying that every job my Boss had a hand in had failed in some way shape or form..
