These days are loooooooong, but midsummer is here and Friday is off, so it is a three-day weekend ahead.
However, next week is the last week before the end of the quarter and unfortunately, due to a miscommunication between my supervisor and I which was discovered less than two weeks ago, in order to get my bonus, I have a metric shit-tonne of work to do before the end of the month of extra projects. While I like getting bonuses, what is worse than missing out on that, is not meeting professional deadlines - mix up or not.
I have been hammering hard away at it when I can, as despite the amount of work, there are other tasks that have been passed on to us as a surprise, costing me a couple days. And, because all of my projects are collaborative, what are the chances of getting anyone's time at the end of the quarter?
Oh well, fuck it - I am going to get it done.
I reckon that I work better under stress and short timeframes than when I have "all the time in the world" and I suspect that even without the communication confusion, I would have left it to the eleventh hour anyway. I tend to do it often and have done all my life, though I am trying my best to schedule and work ahead of schedule. Yet, in general, I am the stereotypical person who does a mass of thinking work in the first days and then, leaves all the practical work to the end, underestimating how long tasks are going to take.
My supervisor and I are quite different in this and while she is fantastic and highly organized, I am terrible at it. The other thing is, a lot of what I need to do is at the tactical level, where I am not very good, because I am far "too transparent" in what is happening, so rather than including the right people at the right time, I include everyone who should be interested, randomly :D I know what I need to do, it is just not in my nature to play those corporate games - but, I like getting stuff done, so I don't mind doing the work last minute and smashing it out.
The challenge in this case however is, it has to be quite precise (not my specialty) and due to the time constraints, I only get one pass at it before having to push it out company-wide to all stakeholders. Let's see how the rollout goes.
Nothing like a bit of pressure!
At least though, after all is done (or not done) I will get a nice holiday break of four weeks before having to face the music on it. I wonder how many messages I am going to get while I am out of the office saying, "what the fuck is this?" The work PC will remain off during that time though, so they can deal with an automated out of office message in the meantime.
Right... that is my cooldown from work - later it is the warmup for three days off!!
See you soon :)
Taraz
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