So, we've reached Friday and the business is still going out - at least it is in Sydney. I hear Melbourne is having a meltdown and Perth isn't doing so well, but we sent someone down to Melbourne last night to help deal with the ins and outs of Melbourne, and the analyst who's helping them out over in Perth isn't generally considered one of the better analysts in the office.
By the end of Wednesday this week, I'd worked almost as many hours as I do in a regular week. Thirty-eight hours on the job by Wednesday night. I've never done a 50 hour week before, but I've hit it this one. (To those of you who've done the 50+ hour weeks, how do you do it regularly? I'm barely sane and it's only been one week.)
Fortunately, things are settling down in this office. I went out the back to the warehouse this morning to say hi to the shipping peeps, and when I asked one of them how he was doing, he said "Good!" in tones that suggested he'd expected the Judgement Day to arrive before he got an order out without needing to call someone over to help him solve a problem!
So, yeah, I think they've gotten on top of it, more or less. And while there've been a few scares here and there - most notably when we tried to pay some credit card bills on Wednesday (with a due date of Friday) and the payment authorisation transfer failed.
Anything involving money and banking and the word 'Failure to process' is A VERY BAD THING. Cue quite a few stressed people from Finance and one stressed Sel trying to work out what went wrong and fix it!
One slightly annoying point: a new co-worker who started just last week. He's nice enough most of the time - except when he leans over my shoulder to tell me something that I know but which is taking me a few seconds longer to process than he thinks it should. And he has a habit of saying "At [my old workplace] [statement that amounts to we did things better]..." Very frustrating.
*frowns* I've had a low-level headache all week. Caffeine temporarily helps it - I've learned to drink my coffee with less sugar this week, although I still prefer the massive sugar rush.
Downside: there may be weekend work involved fixing stuff. And I was desperately hoping to have either Saturday or Sunday off so I could work on my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
atlantisbigbang which still needs massive rewriting and rejigging to make any kind of coherent sense.
By the end of Wednesday this week, I'd worked almost as many hours as I do in a regular week. Thirty-eight hours on the job by Wednesday night. I've never done a 50 hour week before, but I've hit it this one. (To those of you who've done the 50+ hour weeks, how do you do it regularly? I'm barely sane and it's only been one week.)
Fortunately, things are settling down in this office. I went out the back to the warehouse this morning to say hi to the shipping peeps, and when I asked one of them how he was doing, he said "Good!" in tones that suggested he'd expected the Judgement Day to arrive before he got an order out without needing to call someone over to help him solve a problem!
So, yeah, I think they've gotten on top of it, more or less. And while there've been a few scares here and there - most notably when we tried to pay some credit card bills on Wednesday (with a due date of Friday) and the payment authorisation transfer failed.
Anything involving money and banking and the word 'Failure to process' is A VERY BAD THING. Cue quite a few stressed people from Finance and one stressed Sel trying to work out what went wrong and fix it!
One slightly annoying point: a new co-worker who started just last week. He's nice enough most of the time - except when he leans over my shoulder to tell me something that I know but which is taking me a few seconds longer to process than he thinks it should. And he has a habit of saying "At [my old workplace] [statement that amounts to we did things better]..." Very frustrating.
*frowns* I've had a low-level headache all week. Caffeine temporarily helps it - I've learned to drink my coffee with less sugar this week, although I still prefer the massive sugar rush.
Downside: there may be weekend work involved fixing stuff. And I was desperately hoping to have either Saturday or Sunday off so I could work on my
atlantisbigbang which still needs massive rewriting and rejigging to make any kind of coherent sense.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}