Support

I try to keep shinylib pretty attuned to the professional, much the same as I try to keep my work environment, but sometimes your life spills over into…well, your life.

It’s times like these that allow you to take stock of your colleagues (and yourself). There’s a rough patch in the shiny world right now, nothing dire, but it will pass. Thinking that tunneling into some work would help with both the physical and the emotional aches, I went to work only to discover myself useless after only five minutes. It was all staring blankly and exhaustion.

My lovely coworkers were able to support me by making the necessary call for a sub on my behalf and to send me home because I clearly should be sleeping right now. They respected that our awesome working relationship is probably not going to benefit from any deep probing into what is going on in my life, but recognized that I just needed some personal time and a long nap.

Having had working relationships in the past where one or multiple parties continually blurred the lines regarding appropriate personal sharing at work, I can only say over and over how much I appreciate my coworkers. I am going to attempt to power down this smoothie and get on to the aforementioned nap. I just wanted to take a moment to recognize the many types of support you can get from your colleagues, if you’re lucky. Today it was just what I needed.