I'm going to TRY not to make this a rant/piss-and-moan entry, but truth to tell, I'm entering what comes close to Hell Week at work ( Read more... )

I'm less stressed than I was a couple of days ago. Some things have happened that have helped.

I became pro-activeI sent off an e-mail to the main players in September's cabaret and rehearsal times are being set up. We're no more prepared than we were two days ago, but the fact that people are communicating and things are starting to move went a ( Read more... )

This coming month is going to be very busy for me. We're understaffed at work, as one of our senior staff members is in hospital getting a huge kidney stone removed; I'm the primary on-call for our department; our company is holding a disaster recovery drill in the middle of the month, and I've been put in charge of coordinating the batch ( Read more... )

Took the day off work today ( Read more... )

I knew that this weekend was going to be packed; I did not foresee just HOW busy it was going to be ( Read more... )

Today, we cut back to four mainframe engines. This was mandated by management as a means of cutting expenses ( Read more... )

Who in their right mind schedules a major implementation (Major program changes) the weekend of month/fiscal quarter/fiscal year-end processing???

Remember last week when I mentioned some 15 jobs I had to unschedule and remove from our system (There were actually over 30 jobs)? Well, the minor glitches from that have been plauging us all week. All fixable, but nagging reminders of how I messed things up ( Read more... )

*Warning!! This entry loaded with Geek Speak Warning ( Read more... )

For those of you knowledgeable about accounting, the end of the month is a big deal. Balance the books, close things out, tidy up. The good news is that, thanks to computers, a LOT of the mess is taken care of automatically. Neat. Tidy ( Read more... )