An update in a hurry
I feel like I've barely had time to breathe in the last few weeks. Work has been frantic, with a hugely increased load and no one to help - woe is me!
Meanwhile I'm still trying the modern domestic goddess thing at home. In my world, this translates into healthy meals frozen for when we're too shagged to cook; lots of knitting; laundry almost every day; tidying up after both of us so The Trouser comes home to a tidy place; oh, and did I mention my knitting?
I am knitting gifts for the people we are going to stay with on out trip in August. And some things for myself - I am not selfish, but not totally selfless either!
At any rate, I thought it was bad on Friday. I had planned to work from home for the afternoon, so I left for home at 3pm without any lunch. I then proceeded to work until 6.30pm. Craziness!
But even more craziness awaited me. I had a sick day yesterday, and enjoyed it by not turning my laptop on (and thus avoiding the temptation to answer a few work emails from home).
So when I came in this morning there were over 800 emails and about 10 additional tasks, each more than an hour long - plus all the stuff I didn't manage to finish last week, plus all the usual stuff.
The boss and I have agreed to have a chat about what we can farm out - though to whom we're not exactly sure on, since we have no staff.
In the meantime, I plan to concentrate on getting all these annoying work things done - working late if required to meet deadlines. I doubt I'll have time for knitting, and I may post even less. My apologies in advance!
Right, my "Deleted items" box is empty now, back to work!
Meanwhile I'm still trying the modern domestic goddess thing at home. In my world, this translates into healthy meals frozen for when we're too shagged to cook; lots of knitting; laundry almost every day; tidying up after both of us so The Trouser comes home to a tidy place; oh, and did I mention my knitting?
I am knitting gifts for the people we are going to stay with on out trip in August. And some things for myself - I am not selfish, but not totally selfless either!
At any rate, I thought it was bad on Friday. I had planned to work from home for the afternoon, so I left for home at 3pm without any lunch. I then proceeded to work until 6.30pm. Craziness!
But even more craziness awaited me. I had a sick day yesterday, and enjoyed it by not turning my laptop on (and thus avoiding the temptation to answer a few work emails from home).
So when I came in this morning there were over 800 emails and about 10 additional tasks, each more than an hour long - plus all the stuff I didn't manage to finish last week, plus all the usual stuff.
The boss and I have agreed to have a chat about what we can farm out - though to whom we're not exactly sure on, since we have no staff.
In the meantime, I plan to concentrate on getting all these annoying work things done - working late if required to meet deadlines. I doubt I'll have time for knitting, and I may post even less. My apologies in advance!
Right, my "Deleted items" box is empty now, back to work!
posted by The Skirt at 5:38 pm
4 Comments:
That sounds a lot like my old IT job. They were too stingy to hire more staff but were often happy to pay us overtime rates to work evenings and weekends.
Wow, overtime sounds nice! I think they figure that glory and prestige are good substitutes here... shame they don't pay the mortgage...
Wow, that is full-on. What line of work do you do?
Web and email stuff, from a comms & marketing perspective. Unfortunately since I'm staff-less, I am also my own (baby) developer, data entry person and editor!
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