So I did a thing last week.<\/p>\n
After long talks with my boss and my husband, I made the decision that it was time to go back to the office.<\/p>\n
NOTE- the photo for this blog post is NOT of my actual office.\u00a0 It comes from Unsplash, which is a great site for copyright free images and one I recommend!<\/p>\n
My employer has been extremely proactive in terms of employee safety all along.\u00a0 They were one of the first in our area to send employees home.\u00a0 They have rearranged manufacturing equipment – and employee schedules – to minimize close contact.\u00a0 They have our facility deep cleaned approximately every 3 weeks.\u00a0 They have provided every employee with a thermometer so we can take our temperatures at home.\u00a0 The have add hand sanitizer stations (we had some pre-COVID) and foot pedals for opening frequently opened doors.\u00a0 \u00a0There are masks available at every entry.<\/p>\n
So, October 19th was my first day back in the building in 7 months.\u00a0 I was expecting it to be an adjustment.\u00a0 I thought the hardest part would be getting out of bed an hour earlier.\u00a0 Turns out that was the easy part.\u00a0 It felt like my first day all over again.\u00a0 I had butterflies walking into the building.\u00a0 I had to learn the layout again.\u00a0 I had to get used to a new (aka old) desk layout and my new (aka old) chair.\u00a0 I had a few tech glitches getting everything readjusted to not being remote any longer.<\/p>\n
But it was time.\u00a0 If I wondered that driving in Monday morning, by the time I was driving home last Tuesday night I knew it was.\u00a0 Is my risk of getting COVID a little higher?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 But as I told both my boss and my mother, my mental health is important, maybe even more so that my physical health this year, and I am no good to anyone if I have a nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n
So I went back.\u00a0 And I’m 100% at peace with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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