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Summer Hours

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Our company offers a wonderful perk we like to call “summer hours.” Yes, I know it isn’t summer. It isn’t even spring. But the origins of the practice started a long time ago when, beginning the week of Memorial Day, the company leadership allowed employees to come into the office at 7:30 each morning, Monday through Friday, and with no lunch break on Friday, everyone could leave at 1. The program only ran until the week prior to Labor Day – thus the name “summer hours.”

A few years ago the company decided to extend the dates from Daylight Saving Time start to end (about March to early November). Employees are ecstatic with the early out and the leadership is happy (because we’re working the same amount of hours). Win-win.

Our company president gave us an early start to our “summer hours” this week…maybe because it’s been an awful winter, maybe because spring seems so far down the road…maybe because he’s just a nice guy (he is!). So we’ve been arriving at the office at 7:30 each morning…and Wednesday started my no coffee thing. Yes – I’m dragging. Seriously dragging today. But it’s an early out Friday so I can make it.

Spring_forwardI hope you have something you’re really looking forward to as much as we’re all looking forward to 1 p.m. Happy Friday!

P.S. – Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead this weekend – otherwise you’ll be seriously late for church. And that’s embarrassing.

 

You Don’t Owe Me Anything

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I love the picture I’ve included in this blog. Sometimes I get caught with this feeling – mine, mine, mine. Like a toddler in a playroom. Every toy, every cracker, every blanket belongs to me. Or as an adult, every coupon I hold in my hand deserves to be honored (even if it’s the wrong store and expired – yes, it’s happened).

Day 13 – Giving up My Rights

Ever feel as though you deserve to be treated better…deserve to have your employer give you more money, better perks, snazzier title? I’m entitled to (fill in the blank). We’ve all thought it, even maybe said it. But it’s a lie.

The world doesn’t owe me anything.

The word “entitlement” means a condition of having a right to have, do or get something. Today I’m going to give up my feeling of entitlement – the feeling that I have a right to much of anything. My feelings of entitlement usually lead to pride and we all know what comes after pride…a major fall.

So I’ll listen to wise Paul, the apostle who wrote this to the church in Corinth: “Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.”