New Year's Rez

I love my work schedule. Well I love it aside from the weekends I work and mandatory meetings. They are scheduled with everyone but people on my schedule in mind. Needless to say, I wasn’t thrilled about waking up early to go to a meeting about my benefits at work today. However, being the exemplar employee that I am, I woke up and arrived there with a few minutes to spare.

Upon arrival to the conference room, I noticed that the lights weren’t just off, the damn door was locked shut. I thought this was rather odd, seeing as a meeting was supposed to begin in five minutes. Not wanting to bullshit around, I went upstairs to see if anyone knew what was going on. Luckily I ran into the lab manager, who looked shocked to see me at this hour. I could already tell by his reaction that something was up.

“Hey,” I said to him smiling, “do you know if the meeting is happening today?”

He looked at me nonplussed, “Today? I thought it was on the sixteenth.”

“Crap. Really?” I asked him.

“Hmm, yeah, but let me make sure,” he said while he sat down at his computer, opening up a file.

He scanned the file for a bit while I stood there patiently.

“Yup,” he said, looking up at me, “it is on the sixteenth at 10 am and 2pm.”

“Cool, thanks. I’m going back to bed, “ I said to him, and left him there chuckling.

Apparently, I made a New Year’s resolution that I wasn’t aware of until now: to show up to everything slightly early so as to be on time.

However, I do believe I slightly overdid it this time. Two weeks is a little excessive, don’t you think?