9:00 am:
My beautiful wife, Wendy, the Valkyrie, woke up this morning cold and clammy, sweating, nauseated. Nominally no problem except that School Has Started for Teresa. Wendy grounded herself as she doesn't want to drive while sick, so I had to take Teresa into school. Call work to notify the Boss that I'm flexing time, drop Teresa off about 8:15, get to work about 8:30 (moving stop time to 5.)
At work the partitions and desks are in place, the list of who goes where is not yet done, I'll be running modular cables at the desks so Grace and I will not have to do any crawling tomorrow when the phones go in.
11:00 AM
Have the list of from-tos. Seems that most of the to positions, 11 of them, are in the section we set up last month. The 14 new positions we were busting a nut to get ready will get 8 of the moves.
Yeah.... 19 moves instead of the 14 max I was expecting. Don't have any extra time, of course.
13:00 The "to" positions have a discrepancy. Seems that the workers re-arranged themselves without telling the boss. We are going with the workers' wants. More and more I learn why I would never be a manager -- herding cats is far easier and less frustrating.
(I have my laptop set on on one of the desks -- writing this is a huge stress relief.)
Posted by at September 1, 2004 09:05 AMI hope Windy is feeling better, but mike ..... you've got to watch out for the stress thing. Joe would go balistic over some of people who were pushy and didn't go thru the proper channels!
Posted by: Wingo at September 2, 2004 06:24 PM