I mentioned earlier, when I finished up my classes, the various stressful levels of my life (which was why my blog had slowed down for a bit). Time for a bit of an update.
First, the good news. 1) My classes are done. Hurrah! I cannot repeat that enough. MY CLASSES ARE DONE!!! (I haven’t decided yet if I will take some more next semester or not.) 2) Loratadine works perfect for my allergies. Thus, two of the stressful things (which I noted earlier accounted for 25% of my then-current stress levels) are gone.
Now the bad news. The other 75% was work related, due to the vast number of people who have left, the need for training, etc.
Well, today we got another one. This time, my supervisor is accepting another position.
This is a mixed thing, because it’s definitely good for her and she deserves a better position. I wouldn’t envy anyone as the supervisor of my department. It’s nothing but pure stress 100% of the time (which is why I’m not going to even pretend to apply for the open position now). However, she is one of those people that is impossible to replace without hiring another four people or so. One of my co-workers said (rightly, in my opinion): “There is no one here who could take her place.”
So this means that the stress factor in my department just shot up past the red-line. To top matters off, we are still waiting for one person to retire in June, and another will be going on maternity leave (again, my experience is that there’s a 50/50 shot she’ll return from that instead of being a stay-at-home mother). In addition to that, there’s supposed to be an update to our credit card software (the last I heard it was scheduled for May–but that was months ago when I heard that) and our scanning software was supposed to be updated last June/last September/last February/and now this coming June (one of these days they’ll actually do it…won’t they?).
And now we’ll get all that fun stuff without our awesome supervisor. Needless to say, we could use prayers during this time.
