Oh yeah…
Today is July 12, 2014.
10 years ago today I started a new job.
I’m still there.
I had planned on maybe 2-3 years before moving on.
I’m still there.
I’m still not sure how I feel about that, but I know for sure that I ain’t goin’ nowhere. I’m not doing what I planned to do, but I’m doing okay.
I am 8.5 business hours away from a week long vacation. I am so close I can smell it, yet it still seems so very, very far away.
Today is going to be one of the longest Fridays in recorded history. Just please keep the escalated issues at bay today and all of next week. They can start up again on June 2nd if they want. Just go easy on me today and go easy on my staff next week. That’s all I ask.
(he asked, knowing there was no way in hell his wish would come true.)
Every once in a while one of the kids will have a change to the morning routine. This requires both the other kid and me to also make changes to the morning routine. Over the last couple of weeks, that has meant that we have to get up earlier so that one of the kids can go straight to school instead of going to their Dad’s and taking the bus from there.
On Friday, we drove to school without any problem. As we were heading to Dad’s house I realized my phone and my glasses and my work badge were not to be seen. Damn. That meant I would have to stop at the house on the way to work. It would be okay, getting up early meant I had time. It was just a pain in the behind. Just before I got home I heard the beep my phone makes when I get an email. Uh… Oh yeah! I usually put my phone on the passenger seat, but on that day I put it in the console so my step daughter wouldn’t be sitting on it. Problem solved!
Today was another early day for us. This time as I was driving between the school and Dad’s house I realized I forgot my glasses and my work badge. Urgh! Idiot! This time I really did forget them. What is wrong with me? I’ve only been managing to NOT forget these things for about 10 years. That’s all.
Nitwit.
I will not be telecommuting tomorrow. I will be going to new supervisor orientation, but that’s not what this is about.
In my division, Programmer/Analysts with a certain amount of tenure get to telecommute twice a week. As of last week I am no longer a Programmer/Analyst. As of last week I am a Supervisor. Supervisors in my division get one day of telecommuting per week, regardless of tenure. Well, you have to be there for three years before you get your one day of telecommuting, but that is company wide, regardless of division. But you get the gist here.
I don’t get two days at home anymore. I get one. No more Mondays working at the dining room table. I hope this move is a good one. I hope an extra day of driving to Westwood doesn’t drive me out of my mind. I don’t think I made a mistake. I mean I’ve been filling the Supervisor’s roll for the most part for five months already, how much worse can it be? Still… I hope I didn’t make a mistake.
I got promoted today. The downside is that I lose my second telecommute day. I’m back to driving in on Mondays again.
The upside is… is… Is there an upside? I’ll let you know when I figure it out.
Today is hands down the happiest non-holiday business day of the year for those of us working for the company I work for.
Today is annual bonus day! Along with our W2 and our profit sharing trust documents for the previous year we get a nice bonus. It’s nice enough that, when added to my annual salary, it makes my income less laughable! WOOHOO
How did I celebrate bonus day? By changing the cat’s litter box! WOO(cough)HOO!
I mentioned the other day that we had a slight, one time schedule change. We swapped a kid day with the kids’ dad. He took our Thursday and we took his Tuesday. The result was pretty catastrophic to my internal calendar. I spent all of Wednesday convinced it was Friday. I then spent all of Thursday convinced it was Friday too. This morning when I woke up I was pretty sure that it was Saturday. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t.
After having less than three hours of sleep on Wednesday night/Thursday morning I was toast by early evening. I tried to put the Bruins game on the radio while I was laying in bed. I missed the first period and it was early in the second when I put my headphones on and put my head on the pillow… And that was all she wrote. The Bruins won 4-2, and I didn’t actually hear any of it. Yippee.
It’s a good thing I got that sleep last night though because today has been the most hectic day in human history. I’ve been bouncing around like crazy all day. I was looking forward to a quiet weekend. Now I am even more than before… I just found out I could be on call for most of the time. Urgh, indeed.
It’s been a certifiably nutty day around here today. Lots of busy, busy, and busy. It’s like everyone on Earth decided that today was the day to try and get everything done before Christmas.
I’m not overwhelmed yet, although the cat is making a TON of noise.
The important thing is this…
In less than 24 hours I’ll be on my day and a half long Christmas holiday.
So close. So very close.
I’m just over half way through the work day, with the weekend slightly less than four hours away. It’s been a busy morning, but I seem to have managed to clean up a messy situation. We’ll see if the rest of the world agrees or not. Fingers crossed.
I looked at my schedule for next week and Monday is the only day that is meeting free. So much for telecommuting twice next week. Crazy craziness is crazy.
Is it possible that this weekend could include something special and unusual for my beloved wife and me? It’s possible. No promises though.
I don’t know exactly when I decided to live blog my day, but that’s how it’s shaping up. Sorry about that, folks.
Two quick things to note in the 10 minutes before my work day officially starts.
First, I logged in and opened up my work email and was shocked. There were zero new messages. None. Not a single one. Three months ago that would be a good thing. Today? It feels like a bad, bad omen. Duck and cover, kiddos!
Second, I just got a notification from wordpress.com wishing me a happy anniversary. I opened up this account one year ago today. I’d tell you how many posts I’ve made in that time, like I used to do with blogger, but that would require me to do math. Maybe later.
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