My Five Bullet Points
Since federal government employees have to submit emails listing five things they accomplished last week, I figured I’d do the same thing, just to empathize.
I cleaned out the break room fridge. Susan, who usually does it, is on vacation and it was getting pretty gross.
I commuted to the office every day (1 hour each way). I pointed out to the boss that it really wasn’t a good look to for him to conduct the Thursday StandUp meeting from his living room via Zoom.
I did my job professionally and efficiently for at least nine hours every day. There were no ‘big wins’, because that’s not the nature of my job. But the bills got paid, the books got kept, and our customers were satisfied.
I took a co-worker for a lunchtime walk in the park. Her daughter is trans. We sat on a bench and I held her as she cried.
I talked my boss out of his lame-brained idea to have everyone submit an email listing five things they accomplished last week.
OK, this is fiction. I’m retired, so I don’t work at an office. But I imagine that a lot of employees could include some of these items in their emails, if they dared.