Post #3 – Documenting a Day [CLOs: 4, 5]
Task List for January 27, 2022
1.
Worked on Week 2 Assignments 1 &
2
2.
Completed and submitted Discussion
for Week 2.
3.
Got ready for Work.
4.
Went shopping.
5.
Checked emails, text, and voice messages.
6.
Drove to and from work.
7.
Performed regular work tasks
8.
Performed special work tasks
9.
Family time
10.
Sleep time
The
day begins with me going to sleep at midnight. I have an evening job and
sometimes I do not get to bed until late. I slept to about 5 AM, when my wife wrote
me up to discuss things to do for the day (my wife leaves for work shortly
after 5 AM, and when I get home at night, she is asleep). I acknowledged her
requests and went back to sleep until 7AM when I wrote up again and got my
coffee. After a few minutes I am alert enough to get on the computer to look at
my emails. I responded to a couple of messages that require attention. One
message was from Amazon.com. Apparently, the computer I was using to work on
the Week 2 Discussion wasn’t registered with my account and I had to respond by
email to approve the use of the device. Next, I checked my phone for missed
calls, voicemail, and text messages. Everything looked good and I was ready to
continue with my other morning tasks.
The
next task I worked on was my Week 2 Discussion. It was nearly completed, and I
just had to review the contents and verify that all the assignment requirements
were met. After checking the discussion, I made a few changes and submitted it.
Next, I continued to work on the other assignments for Week 2. I completed the
outline for the Word document and formatted the Excel spreadsheet. After completing
these tasks, it was 10 AM and I needed to get ready to go to work. Some people
take work preparation lightly and only allocate a few minutes to do it. I set
aside about one-hour to get ready. During this time, I normally, shave, shower,
dress, have breakfast, and prepare my lunch. All these things are important to me,
and they make sure I am well prepared when I leave for work. On this day, as I
started getting ready, I got a text message from my supervisor requesting I
come in early. I skipped breakfast and left early, not knowing why I needed to
come in early.
My job is about twenty-five miles from my house, and I take the freeway to get there. It can be a challenge because of the construction projects that can delay traffic. I usually allow about one-hour to get to work. The traffic was moving fast, and I got to work in 35 minutes.
Once at work, I found out that our location was getting a surprise visit form the regional manager and I needed to make sure the mail processing equipment was setup and the advertising mail for the mail carriers was distributed. In addition, our dispatcher was not there, and I had to setup the post office dock for sending and receiving the mail. Working fast, I was able to get everything ready just in time. When the regional manager arrived, everything looked good, and she skipped the inspection. After that exercise, I was able to continue my regular duties which are to; log and record the incoming mail parcels and distribute them to the mail carrier stations. Normally, I process between 1000 and 1500 parcel a day and I was well on my way to doing this when I got called to go help a stranded mail carrier who had locked himself out of his vehicle. It was after 5 PM and it was getting dark. With poor lighting in the dark, I had to drive more than ten miles in evening traffic to a place I never been before to get to him. To make matters worse he was at a mail station hidden on a one-way street in a dark corner of a small shopping center. I tried to use Google Maps, but it did not make sense and I drove by his location serval times. I had to call my supervisor, who described some key details about the location that helped me. After I founded the mail carrier, I gave him a set of keys, one of the keys fit and he was able to get into his vehicle. The timing was perfect, because the carrier had to take some medication and was about to break the window to get in his vehicle. I return to my work location, and I processed over 1400 parcels for the day.
I
left work at 10:30 PM. However, I still had to do some shopping. Thankfully,
there was an Albertson Supermarket less than a block from my job and I was able
to get there and pick-up the things my wife had requested. Coming home, the traffic
was not good. I experienced a freeway closure, and it more than an hour. When I
got home at 11:45 PM, I spent about 15 minutes checking emails before I went to
bed at midnight again.
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