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

[mousme.livejournal.com]

National Secrets™ it is. I have Top Secret clearance. The nine months doesn't include training, but we don't exactly, uh, have an official training program. Shh. Don't tell anyone. :P

What takes a long time is the background check. Mine was quick and easy, and took almost three months. They check everything. I got calls from people I hadn't seen in over fifteen years in some cases. o_O

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

Well, then, they need to do a big push and hire a bunch of people at once. If you tag 20 or so people, you'd probably get at least 5 out of that. I have no idea what your manning is, but doing that at least a couple times would probably get you pretty close to what you need.

Not that you can fix it. It's something that the recruiting people need to do.