Annoying Work Week

What a frustrating week!  I've known for some time that this construction and remodeling of my BigBoxStore would make me crazy because of all the extra people inside, all the extra activity and all the changes taking place.  But for some reason, the past three days -- well, let's just say that it only takes the first five minutes of my day to find myself feeling totally annoyed and losing my patience.

Monday started the week off.  It's a day when two of our five-member team is off as scheduled.  But then a third person called in sick, so that meant me and my newest team member to handle all five jobs!  Yep, it can really be crunch time when that happens.  Luckily?  or is it UnLucky?  that I know all five positions - it either makes me a huge asset, or a real dummy!  Naw I'm mostly joking, I do what needs doing because there's no one else, and the job has to get done.  Somehow. 

But that doesn't mean I'm always happy about it!

Late in the day, after I'd been working for 7 hours straight without a lunch break, my boss saw me delivering some packages to other departments, and in his usual teasing, said "Smile!"  I flashed my teeth, but it wasn't a real smile.  I was just too tired to make the effort!!  That night, I was home and in the shower by 5:30pm, and stretched out in bed with "Sex and the City" dvd's by 6pm. lol  Yeah, I'm that old some days!


Tuesday wasn't much better.  The new "app" for doing my job was down for about six hours.  And it was truck day, so I was in a hurry to have things prepped and ready to go.  On top of that, a pool chemical vendor came in and started to prep a "buy back" of overstocked pool chemicals.  Mind you, now that the hot weather will be clearing out any day, our pool weather is just picking up again!  Most folks will be in their pools from September into November, depending on Mother Nature.  But back to the annoying:  this vendor created 11 shopping buggies full of the crap and then wanted *me* to box it up, palletize it, and make the claim.  With all the whining and such, I stuck it out and didn't get my lunch break until 12:30pm.  Boy was I starvin' by then!  I do a lot of walking on Tuesdays, and had already hit my 10k steps before lunch time!

And Wednesday didn't start off much better!  The "app" was iffy most of the morning.  A few of my co-workers were a little "needy" today (My printer doesn't work!), and I was backed up on paperwork.  At the same time, another task dropped into my email:  An entire drawer full of Environmental Records was being revamped.  There went nearly 3 hours of making new labels and resorting all this junk into the new way of filing:  Manila folders within each pendaflex folder. 

It's amazing how the little stuff can really irk a person when they least expect it.  I thought today would be one of the easier days.  I should never plan on it being easy! 

In keeping with the theme of the week, tomorrow's gonna suck too!