Realistic Optimist Hard At Work

[Just A Guy]

Baaaaaaammmm!!! Yesterday work called me telling me "they wouldn't be able to get insurance for me until January" This is unacceptable since the terms of my employment we to get me insurance after 90 days. My W's company has been footing the insurance bill until then but it stresses the shop financially more than it should.

So normally I would have taken the hit and tried to figure it out myself. But since I had been so adamant about the insurance and I had made sure to send multiple emails out reminding them that 90 days was fast approaching I felt I did not need to roll over this time. Management pushed back saying that it was going to be hard since the deadline for sign up before open enrollment season was yesterday (convenient huh??). I told them that it wasn't my problem, that I had held up my end of the deal and even kept up with reminding them of their end of the deal fast approaching. That if they didn't get it sorted out I would have to resign..

And guess what they got it done... I got what I deserved and I think I even garnered some extra respect from the owners as well..

Oh yeah and W saw I was flaming mad on the phone from her office (I was working at the shop on my day off) and came out to ask me what the problem was. When I told her she looked at me in admiration. the frustration and anger I normally would have held onto was directed at the proper person in the proper respectful way, and she was proud of me for that... Even better I got irritated later that evening because I was hungry and she was dilly dallying when we were late already to go to dinner at SIL's house. I let her know I was irritated while I got myself a snack, she loved it... Crazy..

This morning she said she wanted to work on doing some reading/exercises together...

Progress, man I love it... Still holding my expectations low but not as low as last week..