MIA

[kumir_k9]

Some of you may be wondering where I've been lately.  Heck, some of my friends who almost never post on this thing have been posting more than me.

Work has been kicking my ass for the past couple of weeks.  I've been putting in long hours.  I spend more time in meetings lately than actually getting work done.  I'm so far behind people are complaining.  This means I have absolutely no free time.  I've been short with people.  All in all, just not good stuff and so, no time for posts.

Are things going to get better?  Probably not soon.  We just kicked off the implementation of a new ERP system at work yesterday.  The high level kick-off meeting for the executives took two hours.  I'm part of the internal four person implementation team.  Yesterday I found out I should plan on spending 50% of my time for the next four to six months on this project.  The vendor, who will be working closely with us, said we may want to plan on fifty-five hour weeks for that time frame.  That part sounded pretty sweet; they're increasing my work load by 50% and cutting my hours back.  Unfortunately, they were assuming we were working forty hour weeks.  :-(

So that's the bad news.  The good news is, um, uh... yeah.  *sigh*

Comments

[ryxander.livejournal.com]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, your friends (at least this one) think you're an awesome human being and are rooting for you. :)

Ugh... extended crunch time... this is one of the things that I hated about the office world. I personally think that it shouldn't be legal for an employer to extend salaried employee's hours as much as they want for as long as they want without compensation. It's just abusive. Meetingmaker basically made every day crunch time, and had people working long hours for about a year straight... I personally was in a position, as the sole tech writer, to just say "No, we can't do that in this time frame" and keep my hours sane, but I was pretty much the only one. Blah.

But SURELY...

[sans-peur.livejournal.com]

...that two hour kick off meeting told you EVERYTHING you need to know for implementation, didn't it?

Le sigh.

[keyla87.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a coincidence, cause I was planning on posting today just to make sure I posted more than you. Best of luck with work, sounds like an unhappy situation all around.