Today was a bit of a workplace nightmare. Your boss being on vacation only guarantees that a week of workplace bliss will be followed by several days of workplace chaos. This was Day 1. After a morning of nothing to do (remember this is only my 3rd Monday of a highly technical job for which I am still training), the afternoon hit. I had told a colleague that I was afraid I would soon have more than enough to handle on my to-do list.
Just after lunch, a flurry of email snowed me under for the rest of the afternoon - it will spill over into tomorrow. I have a stack of papers to process through waiting for my prompt 8 a.m. arrival. One of those emails led me like Alice through Wonderland, digging through stacks and stacks of forms, tracing through data files and subfolders I didn't organize (IF I had organized them, I would have gone right to what I needed).
I started feeling overwhelmed, and by 4:30, I was almost in tears because of my lack of success. I decided that I needed to kick something's butt today and finish the report. After visiting my very well rested and happy looking boss, I systematically replicated his procedures, and on the third time running the data, things came out just fine.
After all, kicking something's butt must be on everyone's to-do list every day. I wonder what it will be tomorrow...
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