I don’t know if you are anything like me, but we all have
anxiety dreams, and I often have one in which I forget to go to work and don’t
think of it until 11 in the morning. So far this has never happened to me in
real life, but yesterday I did just the opposite – I showed up for work on my
day off! What happened was that several weeks ago the woman who covers for me
on Fridays asked if I could work this coming Friday, so I decided to take
Wednesday off instead. I put it on my calendar but didn’t set an alarm, so I
completely forgot about it. Yesterday morning I woke up and really didn’t want
to go to work, but I wasn’t even a little bit sick, so I felt funny calling in.
Plus I had a lot to do. I reluctantly went to work, and midway through the
morning a coworker noted that I was marked out on the all-staff calendar. I
said, “That must be a mistake – I meant to do that next week. Does it say I am
here on Friday?” and she said yes. At that point I still didn’t remember that I
wasn’t supposed to be there until seeing the woman who covers for me on
Fridays, and then I said, “I was supposed to take today off and work on Friday,
wasn’t I?” She said that since I had already been at work for several hours, I
should just take half a day off and then come in for half a day on Friday, so
that is what I am doing. Now I am wondering if my reluctance to go to work was
some part of my subconscious remembering that I wasn’t actually supposed to go
to work that day. Who knows? The moral of the story is: always set an alarm on
your calendar events that are out of the ordinary. Whoever heard of someone
forgetting and coming into work on their day off?
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