Personal Day

oh my god oh my god. I just got home from a lovely day off, and in the car I was thinking to myself how it was such a nice day off. I had some phone issues the past couple days, resulting in my using my day off to go to the Verizon store and have them activate a different phone for me so that I could receive text messages and actually just use the phone period. The girl spent maybe 30 minutes updating the phone, etc, and going from one phone to the other in order to update my contact list. This meant that when I left, I did not see any "missed calls" nor did I notice the two voicemails I had received in that 30 minutes of time.

So I got home just now and listened to the first message, which said, "Hi, it's 2:40. We were expecting to see you here at work 10 minutes ago. Maybe you were under the impression you were supposed to come in at 3:30." And I seriously felt like I was going to throw up all of a sudden, because I knew the next voicemail was going to be an hour later, still wondering where I was. That was awkward. I tried to call work hoping one of the managers would still be around so I could apologize profusely, but they are all gone. So now I have to call them in the morning.

I am a responsible person. I hate it when people with cancel plans on me, and I never cancel on other people. More importantly, I have never not shown up for work, nor have I ever even called in sick when I was supposed to show up. Oh my god. I think I am making a bigger deal of this than it is, because the reality is, it's over and it's too late to do anything other than explain what a mistake it was. Although it says in the handbook that failure to provide notice of missing a shift was grounds for disciplinary action. I messaged a coworker on facebook, though, and he worked tonight. He said he didn't even hear anyone mention my absence, which is a good sign. But it's the managers I am concerned with. I don't want to be considered a flake or be in trouble. I hate trouble.