Well, I've finished the first week of my two part "Hell Weeks" for work. I've worked an average of about 11 and a half hours each day this week, working with the president of the company on getting some websites done. It's not as easy as putting pictures up and coding in HTML. These are traiing websites that connect with databases to provide training information which is sortable and filterable based on the 30,000 tables that we have. Blah. Ick.

Anyway, I got a lot of abuse. I was worked really hard. I was yelled at more than several times. Work work work. Didn't get to laugh much at work this week. Didn't get to talk. Or take long walks to enjoy the weather.

Next week could be worse. The reason I'm doing all this work is because we have our annual user forum this year. We've got a deadline to fix all this stuff up before the forum starts on Monday. And on Tuesday, I have a class on something that I have never seen. Oh, and when I asked how I should teach it, I was told "Why are you teaching that? It's not even working yet. It's broken. There's no way you can teach it. You're in big trouble. Hope you can think of something to entertain them for 45 minutes because you have nothing else." WTF?!?! So I'm going to be sitting in my class on Tuesday, showing my class an interpretive dance to "Pour Some Sugar On Me". Because I have nothing else to fucking do!

So yeah, my stress level is pretty high. There's a lot of projects coming up. And I just talked to the VP of the company about what my future in the company is going to be once I get married. Although I had spoken to everyone else about it, including the president, she was under the impression that I would be quitting after the wedding. Once again, I shout WTF!!!!?!!??! I had talked to her about it weeks ago, but rumor around the office was that she didn't think I would be staying.

But I got that all ironed out. I'll get a DSL in Long Beach and a phone line for work. I'll be doing site building, support, consulting, training and customizations. Which I have been doing anyway.

I won't have as much daily stress or have to deal with office politics as much, nor will I have to be worried about being yelled at - in person. But I'll also miss all my friends at work, the joking around, the walks, the singing, sharing food.

I think I'm starting to miss the place, and I haven't even left!

Posted by Yano at August 2, 2003 08:13 AM

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