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Mar. 17th, 2010 10:49 amBad days are dumpy. Yesterday was a very dumpy bad day.
Tuesdays are normally pretty hectic for me. I have a meeting every Tuesday morning that I have to prepare for. It's a production status meeting, so I can't prep beforehand. Normally that isn't a problem because I set aside time in my calendar for uninterrupted work time to get it done.
Yesterday morning though, several people in my dept had a meeting right after that meeting and for some ungodly reason thought I should be the one to do THEIR prep work. So on top of my normal very busy morning tasks, I had to do the tasks of 4 other people. I was angry and stressed. I was also late to my production meeting.
And I forgot to bring my breakfast, which I didn't have time to eat at home because I was running late. The time change is killing me. I had meetings straight through until noon. I was starving by lunch time.
After lunch, I had a meeting where I was supposed to work with someone on the budget reforecast. I've never done a reforecast before, so this coworker is supposed to walk me through everything. But instead of doing that, the coworker basically said, "Yeah, just do what the instructions say and let me know if you have any questions when you are done."
I learn better by actually going through the steps, so I didn't really understand the instructions in the first place. What should have taken me 30 minutes took 2 hours and 30 minutes as I tried to figure out how to do the calculations.
The budget sheet was due by the end of the day, but coworker never looked over my finished work yesterday like she was supposed to. I am totally throwing her under the bus should anyone ask me why everything is late. I was so angry yesterday I started to cry at my desk.
Best part is that during our meeting where she didn't help me at all, she told me I had to make time for this budget work because it HAD to be in on time. (I had snapped at her that I had set aside that 30 minutes to work on it with her and she was sending me off to work on it outside the meeting when I didn't have the time for it.) If it was so important for it to be done on time, why couldn't SHE make time to review it like she was supposed to?
Anyway, for the rest of the day, everything I was working on was late. I was getting angry calls and emails. It was frustrating. I was glad when the day was finally over.
Unfortunately the train was a vomit train. The driver kept breaking and accelerating hard and often. I was very very sick by the end of the ride. I had to sit on a bench before my stomach could even handle the escalators.
Then my bus broke down. That was extremely upsetting after such a long bad day, but thankfully the driver was able to get it started again after a few tries. It managed to stay running all the way to my stop after that. I hope they take it out of service to fix it.
Ben had d&d last night, so I was home alone with the dog. I tried to go to bed early, but I couldn't fall asleep so I watched star trek. I thought it was funny how star trek on spike has commercials for cleaning products and yogurt while star trek on syfy has burger and electric hammer commercials.
Somehow I had completely forgotten that wesley crusher had the power to control all space and time. I hate him more now.
Ben came home for about an hour, then had to go to work. I was sad. I went back to bed and was able to fall asleep this time.
Of course today started off on a great foot as well. 40 minutes to catch a train. And I paid peak fare for the privilege. *sigh*
Tuesdays are normally pretty hectic for me. I have a meeting every Tuesday morning that I have to prepare for. It's a production status meeting, so I can't prep beforehand. Normally that isn't a problem because I set aside time in my calendar for uninterrupted work time to get it done.
Yesterday morning though, several people in my dept had a meeting right after that meeting and for some ungodly reason thought I should be the one to do THEIR prep work. So on top of my normal very busy morning tasks, I had to do the tasks of 4 other people. I was angry and stressed. I was also late to my production meeting.
And I forgot to bring my breakfast, which I didn't have time to eat at home because I was running late. The time change is killing me. I had meetings straight through until noon. I was starving by lunch time.
After lunch, I had a meeting where I was supposed to work with someone on the budget reforecast. I've never done a reforecast before, so this coworker is supposed to walk me through everything. But instead of doing that, the coworker basically said, "Yeah, just do what the instructions say and let me know if you have any questions when you are done."
I learn better by actually going through the steps, so I didn't really understand the instructions in the first place. What should have taken me 30 minutes took 2 hours and 30 minutes as I tried to figure out how to do the calculations.
The budget sheet was due by the end of the day, but coworker never looked over my finished work yesterday like she was supposed to. I am totally throwing her under the bus should anyone ask me why everything is late. I was so angry yesterday I started to cry at my desk.
Best part is that during our meeting where she didn't help me at all, she told me I had to make time for this budget work because it HAD to be in on time. (I had snapped at her that I had set aside that 30 minutes to work on it with her and she was sending me off to work on it outside the meeting when I didn't have the time for it.) If it was so important for it to be done on time, why couldn't SHE make time to review it like she was supposed to?
Anyway, for the rest of the day, everything I was working on was late. I was getting angry calls and emails. It was frustrating. I was glad when the day was finally over.
Unfortunately the train was a vomit train. The driver kept breaking and accelerating hard and often. I was very very sick by the end of the ride. I had to sit on a bench before my stomach could even handle the escalators.
Then my bus broke down. That was extremely upsetting after such a long bad day, but thankfully the driver was able to get it started again after a few tries. It managed to stay running all the way to my stop after that. I hope they take it out of service to fix it.
Ben had d&d last night, so I was home alone with the dog. I tried to go to bed early, but I couldn't fall asleep so I watched star trek. I thought it was funny how star trek on spike has commercials for cleaning products and yogurt while star trek on syfy has burger and electric hammer commercials.
Somehow I had completely forgotten that wesley crusher had the power to control all space and time. I hate him more now.
Ben came home for about an hour, then had to go to work. I was sad. I went back to bed and was able to fall asleep this time.
Of course today started off on a great foot as well. 40 minutes to catch a train. And I paid peak fare for the privilege. *sigh*
