03 April 2008
Sigh of Relief
Oi. The Quarter From Hell is now over.
After my last post, my boss came up to me and said, in essence, "That project you planned to do over 3 months - yeah, that one - now needs to be done in a month and a half. Oh, and you still have to do all your other usual work as well."
Gee. Thanks.
All I can really say is - I survived. At least I didn't have to work TOO much overtime. Maybe only 20 hours total. Mostly due to the fact that, appearances to the contrary, I really am pretty organized at work and was able to just work faster. Problem is, my stress level hit TILT. But only just. It wasn't at TILT like it was last December. What helped was that two very minor assignments got waived to the second quarter which really helped in the overall scheme of things because even though they're minor, they still take awhile to do right. And they're the kinds of things that if you don't do them right, it's very noticeable. Naturally that was time I didn't have available due to Project Which Must Be Done At Ludicrous Speed.
Thank goodness I have a wife that understood why I vegged out in the evenings when I got home. I've been a much more pleasant person to be around since that project was completed, I hope.
Needless to say, there was slightly less than No Chance that I got any "recreational" writing done. I have high hopes of this changing this quarter because my boss has sworn in blood that I won't have a PWMBDALS this quarter. Hope springs eternal, as they say. We shall see.
After my last post, my boss came up to me and said, in essence, "That project you planned to do over 3 months - yeah, that one - now needs to be done in a month and a half. Oh, and you still have to do all your other usual work as well."
Gee. Thanks.
All I can really say is - I survived. At least I didn't have to work TOO much overtime. Maybe only 20 hours total. Mostly due to the fact that, appearances to the contrary, I really am pretty organized at work and was able to just work faster. Problem is, my stress level hit TILT. But only just. It wasn't at TILT like it was last December. What helped was that two very minor assignments got waived to the second quarter which really helped in the overall scheme of things because even though they're minor, they still take awhile to do right. And they're the kinds of things that if you don't do them right, it's very noticeable. Naturally that was time I didn't have available due to Project Which Must Be Done At Ludicrous Speed.
Thank goodness I have a wife that understood why I vegged out in the evenings when I got home. I've been a much more pleasant person to be around since that project was completed, I hope.
Needless to say, there was slightly less than No Chance that I got any "recreational" writing done. I have high hopes of this changing this quarter because my boss has sworn in blood that I won't have a PWMBDALS this quarter. Hope springs eternal, as they say. We shall see.
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