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Taking a 3-day weekend this past weekend was just what I needed. After an 11 day workweek I needed that extra day off to reset, recharge, and frankly catch up on the non-work things I needed to get done. I even made myself an agenda for my Friday off— and accomplished everything on it.
One measure of how well it worked having that extra day off is that on Saturday I already felt like it was Sunday. "It's Sunday I'm going back to work tomorrow," I thought to myself a few times on Saturday— then remembered it was only Saturday so I still had all of Sunday free. Bonus!
That's the good news; my weekend was restful. The bad news is that coming back to work today has been a speed run. It's a sad truth of modern Corporate America that when you take a day off your work doesn't take a day off. Tasks just pile up in your absence and need to be addressed when you return.
One things that's made more work for me today is that on Friday one of my colleagues pressed the panic button prematurely on a customer situation. This colleague has a bad habit of pressing the panic button early and often. I wish more people in the organization would understand that— and I mean really understand that, because they say they understand it but then they keep running fire drills every time the panic button is pressed. I need them to stop running those fire drills, stop leaping every time this guy says frog, because all it does is make more work for me each time without actually helping the customer situation get any closer to resolution. I've spent at least 2 hours today on internal status calls when I should only have spent 20 minutes on them. And that's in addition to all the time spent by well-meaning colleagues who shouldn't have need to get involved, too.
Between this clean-up-after-the-fire-drill issue and other things, this is the first chance I've had to catch my breath today. Yes, it's after 3pm now! And I still have 1.5 to 2 more hours to do. Whew. Tomorrow is looking to be a busy day, too, and then Wednesday... OMG, Wednesday is totally booked, too. Thursday... Thursday I might have a chance to catch my breath again with only half the day booked up with meetings. And now I've got another request for job travel over the weekend!
One measure of how well it worked having that extra day off is that on Saturday I already felt like it was Sunday. "It's Sunday I'm going back to work tomorrow," I thought to myself a few times on Saturday— then remembered it was only Saturday so I still had all of Sunday free. Bonus!
That's the good news; my weekend was restful. The bad news is that coming back to work today has been a speed run. It's a sad truth of modern Corporate America that when you take a day off your work doesn't take a day off. Tasks just pile up in your absence and need to be addressed when you return.
One things that's made more work for me today is that on Friday one of my colleagues pressed the panic button prematurely on a customer situation. This colleague has a bad habit of pressing the panic button early and often. I wish more people in the organization would understand that— and I mean really understand that, because they say they understand it but then they keep running fire drills every time the panic button is pressed. I need them to stop running those fire drills, stop leaping every time this guy says frog, because all it does is make more work for me each time without actually helping the customer situation get any closer to resolution. I've spent at least 2 hours today on internal status calls when I should only have spent 20 minutes on them. And that's in addition to all the time spent by well-meaning colleagues who shouldn't have need to get involved, too.
Between this clean-up-after-the-fire-drill issue and other things, this is the first chance I've had to catch my breath today. Yes, it's after 3pm now! And I still have 1.5 to 2 more hours to do. Whew. Tomorrow is looking to be a busy day, too, and then Wednesday... OMG, Wednesday is totally booked, too. Thursday... Thursday I might have a chance to catch my breath again with only half the day booked up with meetings. And now I've got another request for job travel over the weekend!
