Ugh, rough week.
I've been having these car problems lately, that are irritating, and not TOO costly, but... well, just irritating, really. It wasn't this week, but last week, when I went to make a turn on my way in to work and my two front tires blew out. Luckily, at least, it was morning and not really too hot yet. And Nick's Dad was off of work that day and able to come to my rescue. Had to buy two new front tires. Grr.
Then this week, I found out a lot of people at my work had been laid off.. Like 5 or so. Some that had been there for awhile. And this sweet lady who I always associate with Christmas and celebrations and good things. So depressing. We had a meeting with our manager who let us know that it 'wasn't personal, just business, very regrettable, ect. and that we were moving forward with this team and very confident that everything would be okay.' Basically a meeting to reassure us, but just made me feel more depressed.
Then my car started overheating on the way home, and that sucked. I had to put water in the radiator reserve tank at a gas station. A homeless guy helped hold my hood up for me so I could do that. I gave him $5 and the rest of the water. But a couple miles down the road the damn car was STILL overheating. Like needle into the red, overheating.
So I went to Starbucks and bought a few bottles of water. Nick said I was probably going to have to put them in the actual radiator, since there didn't seem to be enough pressure to draw in the reserve tank's water. So I very carefully and slowly unscrewed the radiator cap... not slowly enough, because it burst open, spewing coolant and scaring the shit out of me. But I wasn't hurt, and I found the radiator cap after the mini explosion, so I put the water in and went home. Nick has since then fixed the car. But I was pretty nervous to drive for awhile.
Also, I'm assigned to work with the Wells Fargo team. Which, I really like it. I like having a deadline and a project and going to meetings, ect. It's different since I'm the only project manager on my own team. Anyway. It would be a lot of fun, except that these clients are so demanding, and nothing ever makes them happy, and we have to end up bullying our subs in order to make our clients happy. It's just frustrating. And our deadline was Friday. Normally, I can work really fast paced and make ANY deadline.. but with all the revisions, and problems our client was pulling from thin air.. I just realized there was no way. It's not really my failure, but it's still disheartening.
Next week will be better, right?
Then this week, I found out a lot of people at my work had been laid off.. Like 5 or so. Some that had been there for awhile. And this sweet lady who I always associate with Christmas and celebrations and good things. So depressing. We had a meeting with our manager who let us know that it 'wasn't personal, just business, very regrettable, ect. and that we were moving forward with this team and very confident that everything would be okay.' Basically a meeting to reassure us, but just made me feel more depressed.
Then my car started overheating on the way home, and that sucked. I had to put water in the radiator reserve tank at a gas station. A homeless guy helped hold my hood up for me so I could do that. I gave him $5 and the rest of the water. But a couple miles down the road the damn car was STILL overheating. Like needle into the red, overheating.
So I went to Starbucks and bought a few bottles of water. Nick said I was probably going to have to put them in the actual radiator, since there didn't seem to be enough pressure to draw in the reserve tank's water. So I very carefully and slowly unscrewed the radiator cap... not slowly enough, because it burst open, spewing coolant and scaring the shit out of me. But I wasn't hurt, and I found the radiator cap after the mini explosion, so I put the water in and went home. Nick has since then fixed the car. But I was pretty nervous to drive for awhile.
Also, I'm assigned to work with the Wells Fargo team. Which, I really like it. I like having a deadline and a project and going to meetings, ect. It's different since I'm the only project manager on my own team. Anyway. It would be a lot of fun, except that these clients are so demanding, and nothing ever makes them happy, and we have to end up bullying our subs in order to make our clients happy. It's just frustrating. And our deadline was Friday. Normally, I can work really fast paced and make ANY deadline.. but with all the revisions, and problems our client was pulling from thin air.. I just realized there was no way. It's not really my failure, but it's still disheartening.
Next week will be better, right?
