Do I have an understanding boss or what?
Well,
I only have tickets to the Jags, Bucs, Eagles and Seattle. So it doesn't look like I'm gonna make the tailgate yet again ::sigh::.
However, we do have two significant prime time games... Dallas on Monday and Giants on Thursday (one away, one home)... and as most of you know, I work nights. I am supposed to be at work by 11 p.m. (10:30 on Thursdays). I work four 10-hour nights.
Well, I was lamenting the fact to my boss that we have two divisional night games and I was going to have to miss the end of each game to get to work on time. I don't have paid leave to take, as that has been used up with the games I'm traveling to Maryland for to go to games.
Guess what? Not only is she going to approve me being LATE, she actually understands (and no, she's not a Redskins fan, nor a Dallas or Giants fan)... (I think her husband roots for Cleveland, but not sure). All I have to do is (1) skip my meal break those two nights and (2) make up the rest of the time sometime that week (by skipping meal breaks... which I do a lot of anyway).
As long as I can be at work by 1 p.m., she's not only fine with it, she just said to remind her when the dates come about so she can let my direct supervisors know that I am going to be late, but will be in by 1 p.m. at the latest.
Oh wow. If games start at 8:30, even with OT, should be over by midnight-ish... I'm 15 minutes away from work. I'm a happy camper (nowadays, it doesn't take much)... I won't have to miss any of the Dallas game or the Giants game on Monday and Thursday thanks to an understanding boss that knows that this is one of the few things I still have left in my life that I really, really look forward to.
Okay, I'm not saying this to get pity or anything, but with all the drama elsewhere in my life... despite the fact I do get emotionally tied up with the Redskins and how they are doing, I do look forward to it and I can't wait until the season starts.
Anyway... I just had to plug my boss here... wasn't expecting her to be quite that "understanding".
But then... this is someone who, when my niece became foster parents to four of my older niece's kids because CPS took the kids, she organized a drive to collect non-food items (things food stamps wouldn't cover) around the holidays so the kids would have a decent holiday).
I'm lucky. I have a second "Redskins family" here that I enjoy "watching" the games with during chat even if they aren't on television and now I have a boss who knows how important it is for me to be able to relax and watch the game, before coming to work rather than coming in before the game is over and stressing over the fact I can't see the end and say goodbye to all you fine folks!
HTTR!