Day One of Operation: Costanza, and I apparently had results since the initial day of incident. A preemptive success.
Apparently, over the weekend, my boss took it to themselves to do solo work to ease the load for this week, while guaranteeing my Tuesday off. Just as well, I think he finally started following some of my advice that I suggested since long ago (give a bit of a heads-up for the day, at least.). Hell, I think what changed his attitude was that given how last week went, he didn't expect me to come in for work today, and looked like he was giving me just a few more minutes to come in (traffic sucks, so lateness is to be expected). To his apparent surprise, I kept my word, and came in to work relatively on time (again, traffic).
I think this is the nicest I've seem him act my entire time working with him. In a sense, I think with the vast improvement of things, and how nice I am being, I might be given a more graceful leave from my job. A proper 2-weeks notice. To my surprise, a surprise customer with a non-negotiable time hounded my boss to get things done (I can tell these apart from poor scheduling, just so you know, plus I witnessed the attempted negotiation fail), but at a specific time. Instead of running the clock out and wasting time (we were effectively done for the day, except for a fixed time job later on today), they thought it more efficient (following advice I would have given) to wait out the job, and give me time off instead until we can go to that, and then seamlessly finish the final job of the day from there on out.
Basically, since I'm still working despite all the crap, my boss realizes the kind of person I am, and kinda humbled himself a bit by probably realizing how much I had to put up with, and how much of my wisdom was ignored (so far, today has run like clockwork since he finally applied some of my suggestions; no problems, and things are working out overall). So far, taking the Kindness route has yet to show any issues of any sort, and is yielding high benefit; besides the standard "shit happens" like the surprise job of the day cutting in the day. So far, my boss has yet to show, nor give me, any problems. I'm staying the course; this is working better than I expected, but naturally, I'm keeping close watch on it to make sure I'm not being played in the process, or that I make a mistake. Despite my natural pessimism, I hold no worries. I feel like I don't need to worry at all. It's an unusual peace I feel, and I like it.
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