Tomorrow I Will Not Be Counting Down To 5 O'Clock

  

Just this week...

- I complained that I had to spend half of my weekend stuck at this lovely place called work, instead of doing other fun (or lazy) weekend things.

- I was crabby because, instead of getting that extra hour of sleep, I had to get up and go in to work early each morning.

- I was annoyed with co-workers who emptied the water cooler and didn't replace it, because I didn't enjoy having to lift thirty pounds of water across the office and then get stuck with nothing else to drink but the warm stuff.

- I didn't enjoy feeling like a robot at work while I had to do the same task over and over again.

- I grumbled when people at work expected to get their questions answered right away, instead of not being patient and realizing that I am only one person and I am doing the best I can.

- I continued to do my usual daily countdown to five o'clock and my usual weekly countdown to Friday.

-And I think I may have mentioned something here about having an early work Christmas party this year.

 

Well, today, two of my co-workers in my department started their work day just like me.  And I'm pretty sure, just like me, they had some of those complaints listed above too.  And just like me, around 4:40 today they were rushing to get their work done before they left for the day.  But, unlike me, as of 4:41 they no longer had a job.

As I'm sitting here right now, all I want to do is try and put into words how shocked, disappointed, sad, and scared they must be feeling tonight.  But I can't. 

What I can do, and what I'm going to do, is be so thankful when I wake up tomorrow morning that I still have a job to call my own.  Who knows, I may have more complaints, if not tomorrow then maybe next week, but for now, I'm just so thankful and all of those other things seem nothing but trivial.