I work as a heating and AC technician and yesterday I had a very scary moment.
I take my job very seriously and yesterday I was several hours late for my job.
It was not something I was proud of. I felt ashamed to be so late. The way it happened was the night before I couldn’t get any sleep, I’m not sure exactly how it happened but I was just lying in bed all night unable to get any rest at all. I couldn’t get my brain to shut down, I had a million thoughts buzzing through my head at the time. Finally, only a few hours before it was time for me to go and get up to go to work and service people’s heating and air conditioning systems I had finally fallen asleep. The moment I closed my eyes it felt like minutes had passed but it was actually several hours. I woke up to see that it was 11:00 a.m. and I had a couple of missed calls from my job. I felt so terrible. I took my job very seriously and I was supposed to be there 3 hours ago at 8:00 am! I had my alarm on my phone and on my alarm clock set but I guess I was just so tired that I slept right through it. Sometimes I can sleep through almost anything it seems. I’m just a deep sleeper when I get really tired so I had to set my alarm extra loud to wake me up after I came home from work that day. Luckily I didn’t get in any trouble or anything since it was my first offense and I have a good standing with my boss, but I was careful not to let it happen again and I was able to go and work on people’s heating and AC units like I normally do without issue.