June 17, 2001
Loss of Perspective
On Wednesday evening, one of the management in my company approached me. He said, "Dave, we are going to be meeting at 5:30 to talk about the project we worked on today." So I told him nicely, that I could not be there because I had to pick up Trevor from daycare. He then asked, "Is this an everyday thing?". I thought to myself, "well, I like to see Trevor every day and his teacher gets annoyed if we just leave him there", so I answered "yes". His reponse floored me. He said, "Hmm, that's unfortunate.", unfortunate for who? Trevor likes to go home sometimes, I don't feel bad about it, whose priorities was he thinking of? I can understand if I said that I was leaving work early to take a nap, or that I was going to feed ducks at the river, but my family responsibility was a burden to him The meeting was not scheduled in advance, and he told me at 4:55 (I had to split at 5) so there was no time to plan, reschedule or get someone else to pick up Trevor. Whatever, I am not going to stress about it,
but it really shocked me to hear that. Any thoughts?