Fan, meet crap. Crap, meet fan. Consider yourselves introduced.
I've been on call for jury duty all week. So far, they haven't needed me. I hope that's true tomorrow, too. Then I'd be done.
I stayed home sick Wednesday with a sinus infection. Took 6 phone calls to get a prescription. Used the last of my sick time. No choice but to come to work today, no matter how shitty I feel.
Also received news that a friend's husband lost his fight with cancer. Services Monday afternoon. News turns my annoyances minor. Feeling badly about not keeping in closer touch with E during the past few months, which I'm sure have been hard.
Do mindless but necessary tasks all morning. Eat tasteless lunch (sense of smell kaput).
Get call from manager. Did I know that one of my tasks is overrun by $106K? No. (Expletive, expletive, expletive!) Overrunning is a HUGE no no. Since this has not happened to me before, I don't know what to do. Manager says call the resource administrator and have her de-encumber the money.
I call. RA says "I don't think we can do that. Call the task manager."
I call TM. "Yeah, we had a change order come through last week. We're expecting $150K any day now. Can't we leave it alone until the money shows up?" Um, NO! Doesn't want to run change order through legal again if avoidable.
Apparently, subcontracts put it through without checking available funds (also a HUGE no no). TM is now checking with acquisitions/subcontracts to see if they will de-encumber some money until the PR we're expecting ACTUALLY comes in.
Meanwhile, I'm freaking out. Already not feeling well (physically and emotionally; I can get surly when I'm sick) and the overrun news didn't exactly help.
All I want to do is go home and take to my bed. Nevermind the Easter program I still need to work on or the follow-up I need to do with wedding vendors.
I will, however, finish the half-written condolence letter to E before I do anything else. DeWitt isn't suffering, but I suspect his adoring wife, E, is. A desk job crisis ain't much compared to that.
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Call me a beyotch, and you wouldn't be the first, but aren't you leaving this job sometime soon? So who gives a &*#%...? Leave someone else holding that bag. Or make excuses and change the subject, since all you need is to pass the time...right? Or have I been in a 'less-active' company for too long and lost perspective/morality altogether? :-)
Or maybe I just don't understand the problem. Or maybe I automatically tune out when I hear the whining mid-management voices when they start to bitch about 'mistakes were made.'
Bottom line: I'm no help at all, I'm just wasting space in your comments section...
True: all this mess will be someone else's headache soon. In the meantime, I still want to do a good job.
This is the second big deal issue that's happened on my desk in the last month. Neither can be fully dumped on my doorstep, but it doesn't exactly make me look good. And we're coming up on annual review time.
They can't de-encumber the money, so the overrun will sit until we get the $150K we've been expecting since January.
Acquisition is in the hot seat for putting the order through without checking available funds. I'm not going to be on the hook for that, thank heavens.
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