Wasn't this supposed to be my week off?

[mousme]

I am breaking radio silence to post this amusing tidbit.

On Monday, I received three requests for overtime at work.

On Tuesday, I received three more requests for overtime at work.

I just got another call this morning for overtime at work.

Do we see a pattern?

Thus far, my week off is still intact (I am standing firm!), but next week my two days off (i.e., my "weekend") are toast.

It took me two days of sleep to get over my last two weeks. I got the cats to the vet Monday morning (which is a whole post in and of itself, please remind me to write it up), and took a "nap" around 13:00 which lasted until 08:00 the next day. I then had another nap around 17:00 which lasted until 21:00, and went back to bed at midnight and got up at 08:00 today with a hell of a headache. Thus far the migraine candy seems to be holding it at bay.

So, 31 hours of sleep later, and I am feeling more rested and in a much better mood than before. I got next to nothing done except a bit of laundry and the aforementioned epic vet visit, but at least I'm rested. No way in *hell* am I going back to work before next Monday. I am quite sure I'd go postal. I have told them, unequivocally, that this week is off-limits to them. I am OFF this week, period.

Comments

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Apparently the problem is that your department experiences a heavier concentration of staff entropy than anywhere else. Yikes.

Nine months? Argh! Knowing the hoops and checks you jumped through to get there, though, it makes sense.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Entropy is a big problem. A lot of our staff are near retirement age, and they're having an increasingly hard time coping with the difficult physical requirements of the job: working seven days straight, for instance, and often on night shift. For someone who's sixty years old, it's not nearly as easy as for someone who's 24 or 30.

We're going to be "losing" about half the staff to retirement in the next five to seven years, for instance, and if we keep working everyone this hard, there will be a lot more casualties before then. The supervisors are trying to hire young people, but the process is long (it took me nine months to get in, and I was "fast-tracked"), and I'm worried there will be burn-outs before too long.