So, can I rant a bit? I hope so as it is my blog and I will rant if I want to, rant if I want to... You get the picture... Why rant you wonder? Because I have been trying to post for 3 days and every time something happens… Tonight I had written a long post about this past week, and did spell check, and then tried to manually correct a word using the backspace key and poof... post gone... What’s up with that??? Good grief! I guess I really do need to remember to do my posts in word and then copy paste to here... It will be good practice to do that now as I will have to do this on the ship or I will go broke on Internet fees!!
OK, where to start… Legs get into the way back machine for a moment and go back to Tuesday… Tuesday night is where the week went South and it never really recovered until now…
Tuesday at work all was fine, but after hours (as in after midnight) was ugly. I should point out that Tuesday after work was AWESOME!! My sons baseball team took the championship for his age group. He had a rough start to the season as he broke his foot, but he finished strong and the team is a great group of boys! So, I think I have mentioned that I work for a software development company. I am currently in support (which is another story) and when things are bad they are really bad… Ugly bad even… Tuesday night was ugly bad… So, I was up at 0-dark 30 and never made it back to bed. So, I was very tired and grumpy at work on Wednesday. Thursday I am expecting company in the form of a VP, so I am working like a dog to be ready. I didn’t have a presentation or anything – but since I wanted to transfer to another department, I needed to appear (at a minimum) to have my stuff together.
Back to work… Wednesday seemed to fly by and I was so looking forward to getting a good night sleep. Can you guess what happened? Yes indeed folks, same customer, ugly ugly bad again. I am steering away from details, but trust me, it was bad the first night and worse the second night – and later on Thursday we would find that we caused the issue while trying to prevent it. Just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished. So, I was up all night on Wednesday as well. I didn’t get to see my potential new boss, as he heard I was getting killed with work stuff, so he kept up his house hunt as he is moving here. I tried to leave at 2, finally got out at 3 and was home by 4. I did manage to get some sleep but had to be up by 8 to make sure that all was well. It was not… So, I was up all night again. If you haven’t heard me say it – I am too old to do a 72 hour stretch of time with only 7 hours of sleep. But, alas that is exactly what I did… Friday was no fun either, but I did get out early.
I also learned that I need to remember that just because I sit next to the Sr. Director that my on paper boss is the one that people need to talk to if I want to change departments. I learned this as my on paper boss denied my transfer to training, even though he is aware that I am unhappy. I guess my Sr. director sees the unhappiness more as he talked to me (note to self – never talk to boss while over tired and upset as I cry every time) and noted that he needed to find a different position as I was so unhappy. Thing is I really wanted the training job and now I can’t have it. I lived my prior job and would go back to it in a heartbeat, but it isn’t available anymore, so I am stuck.
WAH!
OK, I feel better now… but this is getting too long. As I need to get back into posting daily, I will stop now and try to have a happy post tomorrow… Wow, that sounds a little Scarlet Ohara… Fiddle dee dee… I can’t think of that today…
