Well, at least I say that now. While I was working yesterday/Friday, it sure as fuck didn't feel that way. The Third Department is utter fucking chaos now. It didn't help that all the work that got stuck down South Wednesday finally reached us. The work that came for me ... I don't know if I have ever left so much work for my co-worker, who is doing The Third Department today/Saturday. I apologized to her before I left work. I stayed an extra two hours, like I usually do. I could've stayed till nine o'clock and not gotten everything done. Seriously.
There are so many things to keep apprised up in that particular position that I am constantly bombarded with things that crop up which I need to immediately address. Toward the end of my day (which, because it ran so long, became my night), I saw something that essentially became a "STAT" thing that I had to drop everything to do, and I know I let out a "Fuck!" that I meant as a whisper but was probably loud enough for everybody in the room to hear. It was that frustrating a day.
It didn't help that I screwed up, which I did right before I saw this "STAT" thing I just had to do. I basically signed off on, like, a dozen reports that I should not have signed off on. And so I had to go through each report and fix my mistake. I had a shit ton to do already, and I didn't need to make it harder on myself by fucking up like I did. But I realized that I made this mistake because I was not doing these reports every day, and that makes me susceptible to forgetting a process of, say, doing a report. I see now how hard it is to step into work someone else started. I can't just apply my training at any point in a particular process. If I didn't start it, I am likely to screw it up. And in a job where I hop from position to position, that will mess me up, man.
Aside, and I need to make this vague because, frankly, this may blow up into a shitshow: I may have made a mistake, but I sure as fuck don't like her tone. There were so many other ways to tell me via e-mail to stop. And by the way, the mistake started with the person not writing down the date. What condescending bullshit. And if she decides to take it up with my supervisor or boss, man, I could be in deep trouble.
With all my venting here, I'm going back to work today/Saturday to help out. They're still behind, so much so that they might bring in people for Monday. But goddammit, I'd rather this have happened last weekend, or next weekend. 'Cause this weekend was the only Saturday over at least the next month where I could watch EPL downtown, something I haven't done yet this season. The combination of Matches kicking off at 9 this/Saturday morning doesn't involve any team that would take over the pub I want to go to, and I can't say that for any day until at least April. But then this opportunity of working ten hours again has to come up this fucking Saturday. I could decide to work a full day, but I have decided not to. One, I really was looking forward to watching soccer, and work like this won't change my mind. Also, I have pulled ten hours several days over the past few weeks, and I was so stressed after leaving work last/Friday night that I am trying to take time for myself. I'll watch soccer, then go into work for an abbreviated day. And if that means passing up some money, so be it. I'm making plenty this time period.
With all that said, this incident from this e-mail may blow up. There is a non-zero change that I won't have a job by the time today/Saturday ends. Just a head's-up.
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