What’s happened?
From a really enjoyable job, with loads to do, but reasonable timescales to do things in, almost overnight it has turned into an unreasonable mess!
I know I am spending more time with new girl, but even so, things - especially last Friday - have gotten unmanagable. Friday I spent most of the day in emergency meetings trying to sort out how to ensure a project which has been in the wings for ove a year and a half really does go live this week. The project manager was nowhere to be seen - pretty much like most of the project. I missed the appraisal I had set up with my boy who is leaving next week, which had already been postponed from the day before (nobody’s fault that time though).
On top of that, I guess I am a victim of my own success in that now every one and their dog are contacting me with queries, which they really should be getting to the bottom of themselves. And of course, all the queries are urgent.
On top of that, there is a big meeting tomorrow with all the very high ups presenting to us nobody’s, but of course, today they want the data to give them a nice pretty graph for 5 seconds showing at the presentation, wanting 2 years worth of data, each of which takes 2 hours to run. And they want it by lunchtime.
Plus I have to write my goals for the coming year, plus my two members of staff, which I couldn’t do until at least after my meeting this afternoon. The one before the other two meetings I had, which didn’t finish until 5.
Plus sorting out data for the boss who is in a different office for the next 2 days.
Plus trying to run something which never, ever works, apart from when the guy who recently left ran it, when it worked every time. We have spent all day running this stupid thing - at least 8 times - and every time it brings back zeros.
I missed aerobics, but rather than hang around the office for a further hour so I could go to yoga, I came home and am drinking vodka. And watching Corrie. And stroking my pussy, who for some reason the last week has been the most affectionate cat ever. Maybe she is feeling the cold?