Last night shift and all's (sort of) well
Jan. 20th, 2022 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI am on the computer at work that blocks Dreamwidth, so I will have to repost this there at some point tomorrow. I don't know why the firewall is okay with LiveJournal and not Dreamwidth--the ways of the firewall are many and mysterious.
I didn't sleep especially well today. I stayed up until nearly 10:00 because I needed to bring the dogs to daycare, and KK doesn't get up until nearly 8:00 (which is when she starts work), and her dog Lidan sleeps with her. Up until recently that wasn't a problem, because I could open her door and call Lidan to come, except for the past couple of months he refuses to leave her bed, and while in the past I used to be able to bribe him to come out with treats, that has also stopped working. I am NOT comfortable just barging into her bedroom (standing in the doorway behind the baby gate we use to keep my dogs out of her room already feels like I'm invading her space), and while I have left Lidan at home a couple of times in the past, I don't want him to miss out on daycare, so the simplest solution is to just wait until she wakes up. The times I've left him are when she was off work, and since on those days she typically won't get up until anywhere between 11:00 and 13:00, I felt okay with my choice to not wait.
Anyway, between wrangling all three dogs to daycare and then coming home, dealing with some minor morning chores and whatnot, I didn't get to sleep until about 9:45, and then I had to set my alarm for 11:45 because I had a therapy appointment at 12:00. I've scaled back my therapy sessions to one a month, and they've all been set in advance (long before I found out I was going back on shift), so I didn't want to cancel and wait until the end of February to talk to my therapist. Two months is a little long between sessions for me, although a month is pretty comfortable right now. Then after my therapy appointment (over Zoom) I got pinged by someone about a Discord server I manage, and what I thought would be a two-minute exchange turned into something somewhat longer, and I didn't get back to sleep until about 14:00, and so when my alarm went off at 16:30 I was a rather tired camper.
KK is in charge of picking up the dogs from daycare when I work nights (and driving them to daycare when I'm on days), so I was able to get dressed and go to work without too much fuss. I do miss hanging out with the fur kids in the evenings, I must say. I drop them at daycare and then don't see them for basically 24 hours. The daycare is very good for them--socialisation and exercise, yay!--but I selfishly miss having them around when I'm home (even though it's much easier to sleep during the day when they're not there). Tomorrow morning I will be taking Peggy and Pixie to their hunting trainer in Metcalfe, where they will spend most of the day again, and again I am kind of sad about it, but also the exercise and discipline does wonders for them--I can see the changes in their behaviour after even just a couple of days of relative inactivity at home. A tired dog is a good dog, as they say, and Brittanys need both physical and mental stimulation to tire them out properly. I'm also being a little watchful about their activity levels because the breed tends to become overweight easily, which is hard on their joints, and Peggy especially already has slightly wonky hips, so I don't want to put any additional pressure on there if it can be helped (and definitely not while she's still young and the only reason for inactivity is my own laziness and/or lack of time and energy).
I am currently procrastinating on a proposal that my boss has asked me to write for him. This is mostly because even though I've asked him several times for clarification on what he wants, he hasn't actually provided it to me. I think it's that he doesn't truly know what he wants, or at the very least he's not able to articulate it clearly. He comes from an operational background, and his attitude has always been "just get it done and we'll deal with the rest later," which makes putting things in writing rather difficult. Honestly, if we could get away with not writing this proposal at all I think he'd be way happier, but we need to have something succinct yet complete to present to the DG so that we can proceed with the actual thing we're proposing, which is a comprehensive development plan for our current supervisory team.
Right now our whole team at work is extremely green in terms of experience. I am the employee who's been here the longest, at eight and a half years. After that, we have two employees who've been here for five years, two for four years, and all the rest have three years or less with us. We're about to hire three new people, which will put 25% of our staff at less than one year of service. The supervisors, apart from me, all have two years' experience or less in their current roles, and that lack of experience has been showing up in the form of miscommunications, interpersonal conflicts, and a couple of pretty significant mistakes getting made in the past few months. Therefore, my boss wants me to put together a program that will help the supervisory team to build on their strengths, shore up their weaknesses, and generally level them up to where they can be effective team leaders. The main issue is that I asked him what his end goal looked like (so that I could actually come up with a plan to achieve that goal), and he just kind of vaguely flapped his hands at me and told me he trusted me to make it all happen.
*rips out hair*
It's nice to be trusted, but also ARGH. I'm sure it will be okay, but I truly dislike not knowing what I'm aiming for, and that is lending itself to an impressive amount of procrastination (including this LJ post, I am not going to lie). Now that I have complained about it, I will get back to the work and see what I can come up with. Worst case scenario, my boss won't like it and he'll ask me to do something different. I will have spent a few hours on it (aside from the time I've spent thinking about it and consulting with the supervisors to get their perspective on things), and I will learn from the experience and move on. I'm definitely making a mountain out of a molehill on this.
I didn't sleep especially well today. I stayed up until nearly 10:00 because I needed to bring the dogs to daycare, and KK doesn't get up until nearly 8:00 (which is when she starts work), and her dog Lidan sleeps with her. Up until recently that wasn't a problem, because I could open her door and call Lidan to come, except for the past couple of months he refuses to leave her bed, and while in the past I used to be able to bribe him to come out with treats, that has also stopped working. I am NOT comfortable just barging into her bedroom (standing in the doorway behind the baby gate we use to keep my dogs out of her room already feels like I'm invading her space), and while I have left Lidan at home a couple of times in the past, I don't want him to miss out on daycare, so the simplest solution is to just wait until she wakes up. The times I've left him are when she was off work, and since on those days she typically won't get up until anywhere between 11:00 and 13:00, I felt okay with my choice to not wait.
Anyway, between wrangling all three dogs to daycare and then coming home, dealing with some minor morning chores and whatnot, I didn't get to sleep until about 9:45, and then I had to set my alarm for 11:45 because I had a therapy appointment at 12:00. I've scaled back my therapy sessions to one a month, and they've all been set in advance (long before I found out I was going back on shift), so I didn't want to cancel and wait until the end of February to talk to my therapist. Two months is a little long between sessions for me, although a month is pretty comfortable right now. Then after my therapy appointment (over Zoom) I got pinged by someone about a Discord server I manage, and what I thought would be a two-minute exchange turned into something somewhat longer, and I didn't get back to sleep until about 14:00, and so when my alarm went off at 16:30 I was a rather tired camper.
KK is in charge of picking up the dogs from daycare when I work nights (and driving them to daycare when I'm on days), so I was able to get dressed and go to work without too much fuss. I do miss hanging out with the fur kids in the evenings, I must say. I drop them at daycare and then don't see them for basically 24 hours. The daycare is very good for them--socialisation and exercise, yay!--but I selfishly miss having them around when I'm home (even though it's much easier to sleep during the day when they're not there). Tomorrow morning I will be taking Peggy and Pixie to their hunting trainer in Metcalfe, where they will spend most of the day again, and again I am kind of sad about it, but also the exercise and discipline does wonders for them--I can see the changes in their behaviour after even just a couple of days of relative inactivity at home. A tired dog is a good dog, as they say, and Brittanys need both physical and mental stimulation to tire them out properly. I'm also being a little watchful about their activity levels because the breed tends to become overweight easily, which is hard on their joints, and Peggy especially already has slightly wonky hips, so I don't want to put any additional pressure on there if it can be helped (and definitely not while she's still young and the only reason for inactivity is my own laziness and/or lack of time and energy).
I am currently procrastinating on a proposal that my boss has asked me to write for him. This is mostly because even though I've asked him several times for clarification on what he wants, he hasn't actually provided it to me. I think it's that he doesn't truly know what he wants, or at the very least he's not able to articulate it clearly. He comes from an operational background, and his attitude has always been "just get it done and we'll deal with the rest later," which makes putting things in writing rather difficult. Honestly, if we could get away with not writing this proposal at all I think he'd be way happier, but we need to have something succinct yet complete to present to the DG so that we can proceed with the actual thing we're proposing, which is a comprehensive development plan for our current supervisory team.
Right now our whole team at work is extremely green in terms of experience. I am the employee who's been here the longest, at eight and a half years. After that, we have two employees who've been here for five years, two for four years, and all the rest have three years or less with us. We're about to hire three new people, which will put 25% of our staff at less than one year of service. The supervisors, apart from me, all have two years' experience or less in their current roles, and that lack of experience has been showing up in the form of miscommunications, interpersonal conflicts, and a couple of pretty significant mistakes getting made in the past few months. Therefore, my boss wants me to put together a program that will help the supervisory team to build on their strengths, shore up their weaknesses, and generally level them up to where they can be effective team leaders. The main issue is that I asked him what his end goal looked like (so that I could actually come up with a plan to achieve that goal), and he just kind of vaguely flapped his hands at me and told me he trusted me to make it all happen.
*rips out hair*
It's nice to be trusted, but also ARGH. I'm sure it will be okay, but I truly dislike not knowing what I'm aiming for, and that is lending itself to an impressive amount of procrastination (including this LJ post, I am not going to lie). Now that I have complained about it, I will get back to the work and see what I can come up with. Worst case scenario, my boss won't like it and he'll ask me to do something different. I will have spent a few hours on it (aside from the time I've spent thinking about it and consulting with the supervisors to get their perspective on things), and I will learn from the experience and move on. I'm definitely making a mountain out of a molehill on this.