Re: 1st dose of Ritalin taken about an hour and a half ago

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

The weekends really mess me up. I’ve always been a natural night owl, so when I know I don’t have to get up for work the next day, I tend to stay up until the wee hours. I do some of my best thinking on Sunday mornings between 1 and 3 am. That sets me up for insomnia on Sunday night and the week begins with a sleep deficit. My favorite work shifts were always the 3-11s and the graveyards. Unfortunately, there aren’t any of those in the company I work for now (unless I’m working on a special project with a ridiculous deadline, and then I have been known to work all night to get it done).

Hey, true story, btw: Back in early 2001, the company I worked for decided that all of its offices in North America needed personnel coverage from 7am to 7pm. I don’t know why they thought we needed it (because at the end of the day, we didn’t) and it was after about 8 months of doing it that they were talking about doing away with that and going back to the previous schedule. But at the beginning, my manager gave our group the choice between a rotating schedule to cover the 7am-3:30pm and 10:30am-7pm shifts or a set schedule with one person who would always work the early shift and one person who would always cover the later one. For various family commitment reasons, a couple of the people would never be able to cover the late shift and since I am not a morning person and would HATE having to be at work at 7am (even for just a week at a time), I volunteered to cover it.

This schedule saved my life. The company I worked for was Aon and my office address was Two World Trade Center, 98th Floor. The two ladies who had to work the early shift both perished that day; one of them had become a friend who had helped me navigate the pitfalls of working for such a large company. I will always miss her smile, her compassion and her pleasant demeanor. Her death left me feeling massive amounts of survivor’s guilt, which time has helped to subside. If I had been there that day, I would have been right there with her and I would have perished too. There is no doubt in my mind about that. It’s a lot to wrap your head around.

I think that’s why my current employer never gives me grief for being late to work.

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