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Just a Long Week at Work

By Beau ⋅ March 21, 2009 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Man this past week was rough. It’s been a while since I pulled some 13 – 14 hour days, but I had that happen twice this week (Wednesday and Thursday).

Let me start by saying, it’s just highly frustrating when people don’t do what they are suppose to and get their jobs done. We have a couple of days every 6 – 8 weeks where the team has to ensure items get reviewed and signed-off before ANYONE can leave. This time it was my turn to coordinate all of this and try to get all three divisions of the team to get 100% sign-off. As an added bonus, I was also charged the task of being the one to let everyone know when they were clear to leave.

So people get 48 hours to sign-off on any setup they did during this 6 – 8 week period. Of course, all that means is wait until noon on the day it’s due to start working…right?!? Clearly, that seems to be what most people did (and do each time). We also have a lot of laziness that comes into play. There are some people who just look for their ID and sign-off on it. However, there are times when their ID will not show and it looks like no one owns it. Then they just wait for someone to go back through and say “hey, you missed this one”. Bahhh!!!!!

ANYWAY, long boring story short, we were online until 8 p.m. on Wednesday and then 9 p.m. on Thursday trying to get this all done. You get a lot of instant messages from people when you are the one telling them when it’s okay to leave. You also get a lot of suggestions how to make this process better. In the end, I don’t think you can fix lazy. That is really the cause of all this pain each time.

Overall, I am just a little tired from work this past week. Hopefully next week will be better and I won’t feel the need to vent so much. Take is easy.