Own Goals
Just when I think I’ve got things back under control, I get screwed again.
Someone quits, I finally find and train a replacement – I’m still a little short handed but I have just enough to get by and the process takes too long by the time I train anyone else I won’t need them and that training would take place when I’m at my busiest. Then I get hurt at home somewhat due to a growing mess, so despite my injured exhaustion last night I spent over an hour making some real progress cleaning up so that hopefully my home won’t attack me at just about the worst possible time.
So today I figure I finally have it all figured out so I don’t need to go in to work until 10am, a whole extra hour of sleep would be my reward to getting through a week and a half of getting screwed. But instead of not starting work until 10am I start getting a deluge of calls, voicemails, and text messages at 8:15am! I have to rush in to work to solve a problem caused by other people not responding to my requests from months ago so I get to work at 9:30am – it would have been sooner but all the calls kept delaying me. On my way in I get a call from one of my staff who says she has food poisoning so now I have to work until 8pm at least, and probably a little bit later than that. So now I have to work another 11 hour day, 12 hours if you count all the work I did by phone before actually getting on-site.
I swear sometimes life sucks so hard you begin to wonder why you bother.
