It’s Friday, 26th June 2020
And so it’s goodbye …
To short weekends and back to work Mondays
To 9 to 5.30s, and gone too soon lunch hours
To coffee to go and tea spilt on the keyboard
To work shoes with heels, and white shirts with pressed collars
To timelines and lead times and far too short deadlines
To conference calls, phone calls and over-run meetings
To log ins, and updates and change all your passwords
To trashing the spam and scrolling the inbox
To targets and forecasts and need this tomorrow
To monitors, laptops, and flat hair from head-phones
To microsoft teams, powerpoint, excel spreadsheets
To flip charts, ring-binders, lost pens and highlighters
To daily reporting and one-to-one training
To stress, early starts, long hard days and exhaustion …
To thank god it’s Fridays and have a good weekend
To drinks machine banter and after work wine-bars
To hitting the target and smashing the deadline
To pay days, poets days, holidays, and lieu days
To teamwork, and being there and how can I help you
To getting to know some extraordinary people
Who respected my work and even said thank you
And to my wonderful colleagues through all this
I’ve loved my jobs and yet, in the end
it’s really only them
I’ll miss
