Whirlwind Monday

Taking time out of the office (whether personal vacation or work travel) sucks.  Big Time.

I knew, from checking my work email a few times while on the road, that things were going to go downhill fast. It was compounded when my coworker wanted to speak on Thursday about more bad news (Thanks Sara!) :)

Then, I made the mistake of checking my work email on Saturday afternoon.... wooh.  I need to learn my lesson.  DO NOT CHECK WORK EMAIL ON YOUR WEEKEND.

Basically, by the time I was in bed last night, I couldn't sleep.  I watched Dexter, turned the TV off and just laid there.  Thinking.  About everything I would need to do today at work.

That's crazy isn't it?

Also, you can never rely on other people to get work done for you while you are gone.  Inevitably, they do it wrong... thus doubling your work when you get back.  No joke.  Please tell me this doesn't only happen to me?  A few years ago at a previous position, I used to tell my contacts that there was no one else at the office that could help them until I came back.  JUST so that I didn't have to fix a mess when I got back.

So this morning I spent four hours copying and pasting information from a word document to a software program.  Seriously... copying and pasting.

This week can't go fast enough.

Also.  I had to interview someone today for work.  It was the worst... THE WORST... interview in the history of interviews.  He didn't bother to prepare for the interview.  He didn't have any questions and when I asked him questions, half the time I didn't get a response.  He actually told me at one point that he just does what he he's told and nothing more than that.

Take notes people... on how NOT to do an interview.  20 minutes later, he was out the door.

This was definitely not the way I wanted to start out my week.  Hopefully, I can survive the next three days.

On an unrelated work note, the walls are finished.  Mostly.  I have the first coat of paint on the basement patch and the contractor is coming tonight to sand the bathroom wall so I can paint it.  Over the weekend I packed most of my life in a 12 ft. storage container.  Minus my clothes and a few pieces of furniture; most of which will fit in the container.  As sparse as the house looks now, it is a HUGE relief that I am almost one full foot out the door.

Special thanks to Jennifer and Rich for helping me move stuff this weekend!