Last night I took a suggestion and put it into practice. I put my blinders on, did my job and went home. Now if I can do this on a daily basis, work won’t be so stressful.

As soon as I got to work, I put my over the head earphones on, loaded Spotify, pulled a cart from dairy and began running the freight. I was working with two other Associates. One of them was the one causing me so many issues last week. I simply ignored him all night.

It wasn’t an easy night, as usual. There was a lot of freight due to Memorial Day weekend. We also get slammed in dairy on weekends. This weekend was no different. Much of the product on the shelves was empty or mostly gone. So I just set a pace to get things done and not let it bother me.

Time flew by quickly. By the time I had two carts done, it was first break. Another two when my alarm went off for lunch. We had two more left after lunch then we could all jump over to the meat wall. I started there first. Management in their typical fashion pulled the woman I was working with to do something else. I took a deep breath and just kept my pace not caring what the other Associate did. He did ask me some really stupid questions that he knew the answer to but I just brushed it off. Last break came and went. We were almost done. I took care of the last cart with him helping and by 6am we were done, which was quite quick for us. Usually we’re running freight up until 7am. As we began to pick up I noticed that the other Associate had disappeared. Again, put those blinders on. Took care of my cardboard, the various charts and started zoning. Still don’t know where or what the Associate did in that last hour. I just know he left his cart and a cardboard bin by the meat wall. “Not my circus, not my mokeys”, I told myself. Left it. I don’t pick up after other people. They need to take responsibility for their own workloads.

When I left work I was in a nice peaceful state. I could actually begin planning what needed to be done at home instead of getting home all angry saying, “Screw it”. Those mornings nothing gets done and I procrastinate and this is how we are here today. My house is a complete disaster and needs some real TLC. My cats even noticed my calmness this morning not running around the house when I got home. Fed ’em, loved ’em and went about my morning.

I am not this type of person. I happen to be very attentive to what others do because I want things done right so it’s not hard for us the rest of the week fixing things. I just things are going to change where I adopt the same attitude like everyone else including management. I simply don’t care. I do my job to the best of my ability and go home.

It works. I hope I have another peaceful night tonight!