EVER!!
In case you're wondering why posting has been sporadic, well... the real world has sucked away all spare time and energy. Following a busy summer (my job is very seasonally-based), we have now been short-staffed at my facility for nearly two months (and in a work environment where you have safety-mandated minimum staff requirements, that's a BIG DEAL). Every time we think we're getting new people on, something comes up and we end up remaining short staffed, just with different people in the same slots. So, there's been tons of extra hours for anyone who can pick them up, and if no one else can, well then, I get them. Sucks to be on top sometimes!
I did have the vacation at the beginning of the month, but that honestly seems like a distant memory already. Things were so crazy the 3 weeks before we travelled, and then we came right back to a whirlwind of drama and stress (some of it actually even warranted!) that I've been going nonstop since I got back!
And the crazy part is that we are never short staffed by one person. It always seems to be several at once. The person who's traveling out of town never leaves on a weekend where nothing happens - instead that's the weekend where another gets very very sick and a third decides to quit! It's like we need to be almost double staffed just to have subs available for when things happen! Always, always, it seems to come in clumps like that. Maybe it's just that if it's only one person short, we just find a sub and don't notice, but that when it crosses a threshold of "down by 3" we actually notice. At any rate, it's stressful and tiring and I'm tired of it happening!!
Add to that, a hectic job for Zach and Army paperwork at its convoluted finest (Zach's working out several paperwork tangles at the moment), and it's just been a barrel of monkeys the last few months, lemme tell you! Regular craziness over the summer leading into the past two months of flat-out insanity!
(sigh) I really love my job - I mean, what I actually do on a daily basis - but almost every day I wish I only had to do it 40 hours a week...
In case you're wondering why posting has been sporadic, well... the real world has sucked away all spare time and energy. Following a busy summer (my job is very seasonally-based), we have now been short-staffed at my facility for nearly two months (and in a work environment where you have safety-mandated minimum staff requirements, that's a BIG DEAL). Every time we think we're getting new people on, something comes up and we end up remaining short staffed, just with different people in the same slots. So, there's been tons of extra hours for anyone who can pick them up, and if no one else can, well then, I get them. Sucks to be on top sometimes!
I did have the vacation at the beginning of the month, but that honestly seems like a distant memory already. Things were so crazy the 3 weeks before we travelled, and then we came right back to a whirlwind of drama and stress (some of it actually even warranted!) that I've been going nonstop since I got back!
And the crazy part is that we are never short staffed by one person. It always seems to be several at once. The person who's traveling out of town never leaves on a weekend where nothing happens - instead that's the weekend where another gets very very sick and a third decides to quit! It's like we need to be almost double staffed just to have subs available for when things happen! Always, always, it seems to come in clumps like that. Maybe it's just that if it's only one person short, we just find a sub and don't notice, but that when it crosses a threshold of "down by 3" we actually notice. At any rate, it's stressful and tiring and I'm tired of it happening!!
Add to that, a hectic job for Zach and Army paperwork at its convoluted finest (Zach's working out several paperwork tangles at the moment), and it's just been a barrel of monkeys the last few months, lemme tell you! Regular craziness over the summer leading into the past two months of flat-out insanity!
(sigh) I really love my job - I mean, what I actually do on a daily basis - but almost every day I wish I only had to do it 40 hours a week...
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