My last duty station in the military I worked in the Inpatient Medical Records division of the base hospital for a few months. We had a very strict policy about not badging in outside of office hours. If you left something in the office after evening formation on Friday, you had to wait until morning PT on Monday to go get it. There were NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule. This was to prevent us from tampering with our own medical records.
However, in my haste to reach evening formation I left my work phone in the office. This is a problem both because you have to have a means of communication AT ALL TIMES for your chain of command and because I had a Saturday watch and needed my phone for the watch. This meant I had to choose between breaking the department policy or not having the required equipment for my watch. Between not being able to stand watch or badging in and leaving quickly, I thought the lesser reg to break would be to badge myself back in to get the phone and just explain the situation to my chain of command on Monday. Not even 5 minutes after I leave the MPs assigned to the hospital detain me until my chain of command gets me.
They told me it would have been better for me to just show up to watch and have the NCO of the watch get it for me since the NCO checks the office anyways. Thankfully I only received a verbal warning, but I was the joke of the unit for the rest of my time there lol
Well, like, I went to the girl i like's workplace last night, with her friend, but, because she works a half hour away on the west side of cleveland while i live here on the east side, it probably really wasn't necessary to go all the way out there, but, because i had never been to the place she works, and it sounded pretty cool, etc.. i wanted to go, to see her, and, to ask her to a thing her friend and i are going to. She not only took her phone out right then and there to ask off for that day, but she also even showed us that she did. What does that mean?
I once met with a classmate on Sunday to study for an exam together and it felt so weird to be at school on a Sunday but it was a smart choice cause he sent me an email that saved my grade and GPA. He had copies of exams from previous years and they were the exact questions our professor asked on the test. Our professor removed it during exam week to lower the class average but my study friend had a copy from before.
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That's how I felt today! Going to school on Sunday is so weird and so empty. I had to go see my profs asking for some help before midterms. I'm not as lucky and I don't have a study friend with those kinds of thinga to help :(
A random baby shower, a random bd of someone I don't know, Christmas with the part of the family I barely know and never talk to, a random house of a family member I don't know waiting for hours till my parents finish talking (happened many times), a bank (when I was little, may times also), etc... Yeah, many places where I felt I shouldn't be wasting my time in there, yet couldn't do anything about it.
Sometimes I would be driving to work (essential worker) during lockdowns and the really busy streets would almost be a ghost town. Talking usually 20 cars on the road and it's more like 3 cars out, and it's the middle of the day. It felt very weird, like there was a bomb scare and no one told you about it.
It's not weird, it's seeing the place as it is. Schools, malls, places where a lot of people usually are get altered by the people, so seeing them bare, without the people can seem weird, but it's the place as it is, without the function of the place.
It's similar to a factory once all the machines have been removed.
Usually when I'm not at home, or at least in my hometown, I feel like I'm not in the right place, and it feels off. Even just visiting family, it feels like I shouldn't be here.
Why did you have to go there on a Sunday? I went to a restaurant few months ago with some friends. We all felt so out of place. Like we weren't supposed to be there for some reason.
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