My day:
I left a little early, stopped and Beans & Brews, and had a nice leisurely drive to work. Got to work and there was mail, the keyers were there, everyone was happy. Look: it’s my delusion, so shut up!!! Anyway, all was happy and a typically slow Sunday… and then all Hell decided to break loose. So to speak. ::: genuflect :::

    We had lots – did I mention “PLENTY” – of DCOs on duty.
    Mail ran out – which is normally a “good” thing.
    The sites said that they didn’t have anything to send us.
    *Yay*
    So…. we asked people if they wanted to go home early. That helped. A little.
    We SENT people home early. That helped even less.
    We moaned and wailed and cast auguries. This may not have helped, per se, but we were desperate.

Finally, the mail picked up a bit and we were able to balance the keyer-to-mail ratio. And all was good again. And there was much rejoicing… mostly from me. THEN, I started working on the Operations schedule.

    SIDEBAR: We have three senior managers: the facility manager and two operations managers. We report to the Ops Managers who, in turn, report to the facility manager. One of the Ops Managers is responsible for scheduling supervisors and for creating our Operations Schedule.

Most of the senior managers and some of the supervisors are going to a training class on Monday and Tuesday. No problem. We had enough coverage from the remaining supervisors. I made a phone call to one of the supervisors, Mike, to remind him that he was opening tomorrow morning. He called back a few minutes later… to tell me that he was still on vacation until Tuesday.

    BRAINCRAMP

So… I called our facility manager and gave her all the good news, which she took far better than I expected. Good!!! She also authorized me to change supervisors’ schedules… since our Ops Manager apparently forgot a few details. *sigh* So I called Mike back and told him that his vacation was still intact. Then I called two of the supervisors whose schedules I had to adjust: One was fine with the changes, the other told me that he couldn’t… and why. His reasons were VERY valid – he’s in charge of our probationary people and he has a plethoric buttload of reviews that he has to complete in the next two days. So… back to the drawing board.

    BRAINCRAMP

I finally mananged to get the schedules for Monday and Tuesday done. Then, Wednesday’s schedule, which was pretty easy… since only three of us are working at Ops on Wednesday; there’s another supervisor who will be there, but she has to devote her time to preparing the keyers’ schedule. Three down, two to go. Fortunately, they went very quickly. All that remained was to print up a few copies, email copies to the staff and managers and call it a night. Which I did as quickly as I could.

Jess, Angie, Scott and a couple of others went to go see “Tomb Raider” for Movienight II. Sounds like they had fun. Have I mentioned: “I [heart] my job” lately? I do. Tons. More than words can express, sometimes. But life goes on… and so shall I.

More later.

Peace.