A Freaking Monday

I went out with my family today, it's been a few months since we all went out and it was nice. We walked around a park, went to a farm and saw some chicken, ducks, goats and sheep. And then did a little grocery shopping. It was pretty nice outside that Monday, and at some points a little too hot. By the time we got home I pretty much had to immediately prepare for work and stuff. At work I tried my hardest to make sure all my workers had a decent Monday. One of my co-workers told me how much he appreciates my hard work, and how much he respects me and stuff. I reciprocated and told him that I appreciate him being a good workers and stuff. We have a cool respect thing going on with each other and it's been nice. I wish my friendships could be just as easy to manage. I like working, and my co-workers like my work and effort. I'm always told that I'm one of the good ones and that there should be more people like me. I mean there technically is, but his hours got cut and he does the earlier shift. My other supervisor co-workers don't put in even close to as much effort as I do, and some of my management told me to not let that get me down. The management cycle for them is "talking it up" with co-workers when they load the wrong package in the wrong truck, or even simply not scanning packages. It's an infinite cycle of them being disappointed, while not wanting to actively punish supervisors. I might try to get them to do something, because it's not productive having teammates that can just do whatever each shift. They're allowed to laze around and do practically nothing. When I'm out there sweating my ass off in-between conveyor belts, they're just laughing and talking with their co-worker friends and they can get loud. In an effort to not use as much brain power at work, I'm gonna try talking to my managers to see if they can at least softly punish the lazier workers, so that I don't have to constantly do so much more work without getting anything back. Our company is not making quota, and they're just killing time by not wanting to punish anyone. Polar opposite of my previous position under different bosses...

I guess to me the only obstacle I've come across is time. I do things I enjoy, and by the time I want to work on something, something else comes up. Or I get distracted, or I just get anxious about an upcoming shift and spend time just thinking about it. Wasting time thinking about the inevitable. And then out of nowhere, I have no more time to think and only have time to prepare for work and drive.