If you NEVER work overtime - STFU!
These last two weeks at work have been a total whirlwind. Since last week was only a 3-day work week it was total insanity. I didn't even take lunch one day, someone picked me up a burrito and I scarfed it down and that was during an 11 hour work day. Craziness. Thankfully, things should start to settle down again in the beginning of December.
Anyways, I hate to feel constantly behind at work. There are tasks I do daily, weekly, etc, that MUST be done. I mean, hello, we don't want vendors calling because I got too busy to mail the checks out that week. LOL. So, yeah, these last two weeks I've really had to prioritize my work. I've even got 3 projects just sitting at my desk because I haven't had a chance to dedicate any time to them. PROJECTS, not even daily tasks, sitting, totally untouched.
One of my daily tasks is the mail. Three times a day. I open and distribute the mail for my department. Part of the reason why I do this is, as a control measure, I log all of the incoming checks before they go off to be processed. Once I log the checks, I take them to The Man (that's my nickname for him) and he processes them. Well, he's very particular about the checks. They must be sorted by ascending value, the check and any envelope contents must be paperclipped in the upper left hand corner, and he prefers large paperclips only. It's been like that since before I started so I don't think twice about it. I have found, when I'm PMS'ing his constant need to check on the status of the mail 3 times a day, drives me bonkers. The mail comes at 9:30, 2:30 and 4:30. By 9:45 he's asked, 'how does the morning mail look?' By 3 he's asked 'any checks this afternoon?' And by 4:25 he's usually emailed me to say he saw the mail crew walk by. You know, just to remind me that I should get the last mail of the day.
Well, with my crazy workload, I haven't been as quick as usual with the mail and checks and I certainly haven't had time to send him 3 emails a day letting him know how the mail/checks look. The Man emailed me at 2:59 today to ask if there were any afternoon checks. I got back from lunch at 2, did some work to prep for a meeting, and had a meeting at 3. I didn't get his email until I got out of my meeting and back to my desk at 4:15, and I certainly didn't get to the mail.
Between 2:59 and 4:15 he complained to his boss. Granted, it probably wasn't just today, I've been slammed for the last two weeks, so all during that time, he hasn't been getting the mail as quick as he's used to. So, he went to his boss (not even his supervisor, his BOSS - an Administrator) and complained he wasn't getting the checks fast enough and actually asked her if she could assign the task to someone else. Now, the bright side of all this - he's known for his lack of patience. The even brighter side, I sit right outside his boss's office so she knows how crazy busy I've been. I've often still been at work at the end of the day when she's leaving! So she looked at him, and told him everyone has been busy lately and with Patty retiring in 2 weeks, a lot of us have been given additional tasks, so no, she would not reassign the mail to someone else, he would have to be patient and realize that he WILL get them, but sometimes there are other priorities. *high five to his boss*
Anyways, I hate to feel constantly behind at work. There are tasks I do daily, weekly, etc, that MUST be done. I mean, hello, we don't want vendors calling because I got too busy to mail the checks out that week. LOL. So, yeah, these last two weeks I've really had to prioritize my work. I've even got 3 projects just sitting at my desk because I haven't had a chance to dedicate any time to them. PROJECTS, not even daily tasks, sitting, totally untouched.
One of my daily tasks is the mail. Three times a day. I open and distribute the mail for my department. Part of the reason why I do this is, as a control measure, I log all of the incoming checks before they go off to be processed. Once I log the checks, I take them to The Man (that's my nickname for him) and he processes them. Well, he's very particular about the checks. They must be sorted by ascending value, the check and any envelope contents must be paperclipped in the upper left hand corner, and he prefers large paperclips only. It's been like that since before I started so I don't think twice about it. I have found, when I'm PMS'ing his constant need to check on the status of the mail 3 times a day, drives me bonkers. The mail comes at 9:30, 2:30 and 4:30. By 9:45 he's asked, 'how does the morning mail look?' By 3 he's asked 'any checks this afternoon?' And by 4:25 he's usually emailed me to say he saw the mail crew walk by. You know, just to remind me that I should get the last mail of the day.
Well, with my crazy workload, I haven't been as quick as usual with the mail and checks and I certainly haven't had time to send him 3 emails a day letting him know how the mail/checks look. The Man emailed me at 2:59 today to ask if there were any afternoon checks. I got back from lunch at 2, did some work to prep for a meeting, and had a meeting at 3. I didn't get his email until I got out of my meeting and back to my desk at 4:15, and I certainly didn't get to the mail.
Between 2:59 and 4:15 he complained to his boss. Granted, it probably wasn't just today, I've been slammed for the last two weeks, so all during that time, he hasn't been getting the mail as quick as he's used to. So, he went to his boss (not even his supervisor, his BOSS - an Administrator) and complained he wasn't getting the checks fast enough and actually asked her if she could assign the task to someone else. Now, the bright side of all this - he's known for his lack of patience. The even brighter side, I sit right outside his boss's office so she knows how crazy busy I've been. I've often still been at work at the end of the day when she's leaving! So she looked at him, and told him everyone has been busy lately and with Patty retiring in 2 weeks, a lot of us have been given additional tasks, so no, she would not reassign the mail to someone else, he would have to be patient and realize that he WILL get them, but sometimes there are other priorities. *high five to his boss*