i slept through my entire day of work. this is nothing new to me. but it wasn't calculated either. that is the fairly new part. so when i finally wake up and rub the crust from my eyes, i privately shoot myself through my skull with my overused imaginative gun when i check the time on my two alarm clocks and my cell phone.
6 missed calls.
2 unheard messeges.
fuck!
"hey cody this is the senior counselor from hollywood across from the house you work for. yeah, you were supposed to be here today. uumm, if your thinking of abandoning your job you should know that you shouldn't do this cuz it can really damge your work record. so i suggest you call while you are still in good standing. if you are just not satisfied with the location why don't you just call mark and you guys can arrange a meeting for you to be switched." if this guy sounded any cockier i might have called him and asked for my dick back cause he seems to posses all the male genitalia in iowa city.
"so, yeah... you need to make a call by today. today is saturday."
no shit. please provide me with more information that might be usefull to a manequin. i already know, sir. if this guy only knew exactly how many times this has happened in my work history. if he only knew that for once it wasn't planned. and don't even get me started at how many jobs i have abandonded. (research earlier entries.) and who gives him the right to assume that i am abandoning my job. this is the first accident since working at this location. why assume that i am running from it?
but because of such a, i say professional for lack off a better word, response to my irresponsibility i was left with an amazing amount of guilt. cause like so many times before i am left to come up with a clever or not so clever excuse. in the past i have used anything from family illness to diarrhea. i mean who is going to question you if you tell them you're pissing out of your ass? but for something like no show no call you have to be really good. you can use the hospital excuse becasue they really can't ask you to prove if you were there or not. but the trick to get around is why you didn't atleast call. so hospital or taking someone to the hospital works well. sudden family emergencies can always work. then there is out of town travel and car trouble on the way back. or if you want to be really dramatic if you can make it believeable you can give the sobby, "i just had the worst night of my life..... car trtouble on the way there then we were stranded, blah blah blah." all of which will do a number on your kharma. lastly there is honesty. plain old boring honesty. "i over slept.....the entire day." but since i had no intention off this no call no show i had no idea how to go about it. shit i still don't even know how it happened, how i managed this. but its taken care of and i will keep my action to myself in hopes of building a mistique. whether it be, "wow, i wonder if cody actually told the truth to an employer!" or, "cody, cody, cody....which excuse did you use this time?"
but whats most important to me in these happenings is this. this was not intentional. it was not planned. i had every intention of going to work today, christ knows i need the fucking money. but it was an honest human mistake. lets just hope the little people at work can forgive me. and like prune juice in a nursing home i i hopei know the outcome to this.
good day folks. have a wonderful holiday weekend.
love ~ cody tyler
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