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Oct. 22nd, 2021 09:22 pmStill plodding away at the second draft of Island Territory, chapter 1. I should be able to finish that tonight, though I may wait until Monday to post it. Spent some time poking around unsplash for some images to use in a moodboard/cover type thing, if I decide to make one.
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Going to spend tomorrow night at Taylor's. Alex has a horse show on Sunday morning, and doesn't know his ride time, yet. But knowing how far away the barn is, chances are very good that he'll have to be down there pretty early, which means he can't drop me at work. (Or would have to leave me there at like, five.)
Lyft has been a pain in the ass every time I've used it, plus we're on the "eat-nothing-but-ramen" part of the pay cycle. (Metaphorically - we're actually fine on food! ...But we can't buy much more than gas until payday. The timing of having to drive back down to the barn for the show isn't great for that reason, but adding rideshares on top of it would suck more.)
But always excited to spend a night hanging out with Taylor. :) Even if it's a worknight, we'll have a few hours to read or play games or something.
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Ever so slightly annoyed that starting next week I get a new weekend task. All "customer care" emails from after-hours on Friday will get forwarded to me, to be dealt with when I come in on Saturday. Now, practically speaking, this probably isn't going to change much. Upper management forwards a lot of them to me ANYWAY. But still... Saturdays suck. They are the day where it is most obvious that we are painfully understaffed - the phones are hard to keep up with as it is, we almost always have classes in-center, I have additional testing that I have to coordinate each Saturday. Plus I already have extra weekend tasks that most people don't: I'm the point of contact for compliance paperwork on the weekends, AND I'm one of only two online technical support persons for Saturday (and fairly frequently, I'm the ONLY one). It's one of our busiest days of the week, while also being the one that has by far the fewest staff.
I don't mind having extra responsibilities, and I don't think it will necessarily add all that much. Of all the support staff, I'm the one who has been there the second longest, because I've stuck around and have no interest in being "promoted" to manager. (And the VP/COO told my manager the other reason they want me to do it is because I have "clarity in writing", haha. So at least it's slightly skill-based.)
At the same time, I keep hoping those extra responsibilities will create SOME forgiveness for the fact my sales aren't the best, and my call numbers are the low end of average. ...But it never works that way: I'm always being told that I need to do more, regardless of how time-consuming the other things I'm tasked with are. I genuinely CAN'T do all of it every day. That isn't even the probable-ADHD, though that doesn't help, but even on a good day, where I don't spend any time dicking around, I can wind up staying half an hour or more late just to get the bare minimum done. And that just makes me resent the extra shit, and I don't want one more thing to resent on the weekends, which already make me miserable, haha.
Basically, I hope it DOESN'T add too much more to my plate on Saturdays, because if it does, I'm going to want to die.
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Going to spend tomorrow night at Taylor's. Alex has a horse show on Sunday morning, and doesn't know his ride time, yet. But knowing how far away the barn is, chances are very good that he'll have to be down there pretty early, which means he can't drop me at work. (Or would have to leave me there at like, five.)
Lyft has been a pain in the ass every time I've used it, plus we're on the "eat-nothing-but-ramen" part of the pay cycle. (Metaphorically - we're actually fine on food! ...But we can't buy much more than gas until payday. The timing of having to drive back down to the barn for the show isn't great for that reason, but adding rideshares on top of it would suck more.)
But always excited to spend a night hanging out with Taylor. :) Even if it's a worknight, we'll have a few hours to read or play games or something.
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Ever so slightly annoyed that starting next week I get a new weekend task. All "customer care" emails from after-hours on Friday will get forwarded to me, to be dealt with when I come in on Saturday. Now, practically speaking, this probably isn't going to change much. Upper management forwards a lot of them to me ANYWAY. But still... Saturdays suck. They are the day where it is most obvious that we are painfully understaffed - the phones are hard to keep up with as it is, we almost always have classes in-center, I have additional testing that I have to coordinate each Saturday. Plus I already have extra weekend tasks that most people don't: I'm the point of contact for compliance paperwork on the weekends, AND I'm one of only two online technical support persons for Saturday (and fairly frequently, I'm the ONLY one). It's one of our busiest days of the week, while also being the one that has by far the fewest staff.
I don't mind having extra responsibilities, and I don't think it will necessarily add all that much. Of all the support staff, I'm the one who has been there the second longest, because I've stuck around and have no interest in being "promoted" to manager. (And the VP/COO told my manager the other reason they want me to do it is because I have "clarity in writing", haha. So at least it's slightly skill-based.)
At the same time, I keep hoping those extra responsibilities will create SOME forgiveness for the fact my sales aren't the best, and my call numbers are the low end of average. ...But it never works that way: I'm always being told that I need to do more, regardless of how time-consuming the other things I'm tasked with are. I genuinely CAN'T do all of it every day. That isn't even the probable-ADHD, though that doesn't help, but even on a good day, where I don't spend any time dicking around, I can wind up staying half an hour or more late just to get the bare minimum done. And that just makes me resent the extra shit, and I don't want one more thing to resent on the weekends, which already make me miserable, haha.
Basically, I hope it DOESN'T add too much more to my plate on Saturdays, because if it does, I'm going to want to die.
