The Tides of Tuesday

[iamshewolf]

Normally when I get to work it's at least 30 minutes before chaos insues. Today it was waiting in my e-mail that still is not acting right. We have a very definate chain of command, and management get's real pissy when it's not followed. So today I get e-mails starting from the VP all the way down with various versions of the same questions. What made it funny was each level of management was going behind their higher up's back to ask me the question. I hope it was a good thing when I put all the questions they had in one e--mail and sent the answers to my boss and blind copied the rest. This probably took a good hour and a half of research this morning when I should have been doing my reports. My Boss didn't say anything to me about it. SO I guess it's okay. My Bi-Polar co-worker spent about 6 hours of the day being spazzed and freaking out over every little noise in the office. She's going through a phase of mimicing my illness and seeing people that aren't there. I keep hoping she will teach one of them to do her job so that at least someone is doing it. Yeah I'm being a little pissy about her right now. She is a sweet lady. But she holds on to friends too tightly and while I understand she is afraid of being left behind. She is choking me to death with it. She refuses to continue with a professional counselor, she says because she get's more out of talking to me. I don't know how to tell her this, but I quit really listening to the same thing day after day about 4 months ago. She doesn't understand that I am barely in contol of my own life, and am not really a person qualified to give guidance other than take your medecine and stop using being bi-polar as an excuse for every damned thing. You do have some control and everyone in the office didn't need to know about the disorder. For those that don't know what I do, I'm in work order management and I handle DSL accounts. That is on the small scale, that is what my department does. What I specifically do is called being a team lead or SME, I support the tier 2 techs, when they have problems with an account that is "paper work" related, I do the daily reporting for my OM, manage the large scale special needs accounts, give on the spot training for my team meaning I run around answering question about process or tell you why you can't so something the way you did before you asked me then how to fix it, help the trainers develop training materials that some one can understand, Figure out why some process is not working, sort and filter things that are so broke that even I can't fix it and send it to the IT department that can over ride what ever it is, work with field techs and high profile customers, if you have my desk number you are either a real bad assed customer, know a real bad ass in my company or are my husband, in amongst that I have to work a full days work load of the same things that the rest of my team does. The team leads production daily production average will more than blow the production requirement all to hell and then some. There are 4 of us with similar workloads and manager expectations. So when I tell miss Bi-Polar to get a grip I'm not being mean I'm being realistic. I can't get my work done and baby sit her all day. I don't give a rats ass that her boyfriend of 40 years ago is mad at her for calling repeatedly so she could tell him she had an abortion way back then. I don't think he really cared then and I'm pretty sure that he doesn't care now. Besides we are at work so concentrate on that and leave the rest outside. No do not send him the pictures of your self you had doctored in Vegas to show him what he missed. He didn't miss that then and he's not missing it now. When he says something shitty to you it's only going to bruise your ego more than it already is. So let the poor man alone, if you need this much attention get it from your husband. I fyou can't get it there then at least get some where local and please stay on your meds. There are days that I actually wish this woman would be committed again.

So I spent at least an hour this morning holding the hand of several big wigs and the rest of the day holig the hand of the local nut cake. I didn't get my regular work done and will have to try and do it tomorrow. Please God get me though this week. I've had a stress related nap and now I can't seem to sleep. Grrr...