A Week of Calamities

This has been an exciting experiment this past week as I started my new shift at work. It seems that Murphy's Law was in full session all this week and I've had experienced the full farce of it. It had been a daily dose of calamities for the most part transitioning from night shift to day shift. All this with one looming question that comes before me: do I continue to strife through it or try to find a way to regain my once coveted night shift position. I just don't know. Maybe a day by day breakdown would help make this more clear to see what should I do to force myself to try and say that it was just a bad case of "Shift Happens".

By the way I'm basing this list on my work week, I work five days straight but what I call my Monday doesn't really resemble the day Monday, just my first day of my work week. Just to clarify...

Monday: I like to start by saying that working at a call center there has to be an influx of calls to come in. For some time there was an issue with my line of business receiving incoming calls as if it was bottlenecking and only a few were coming in at the time. So I've been taking other line of businesses calls. But they fixed that problem, a little too well, because instead of bottlenecking, it was a tidal wave of calls from my line of work that came in and I had to troubleshoot. I mean MacGyver don't even fix stuff this well. It caught not only myself but everyone from my department off guard and we were standing there (well sitting in our cubicles) avant garde to the situation. By the way, the wave of calls would last all week. Great for business, bad for someone that was once used to a tricke now experiencing the heavens pour down upon him.

Tuesday: A nice part of my work is that I have a roaming profile that can be taken from computer to computer so that if somehow someone had taken my seat from the prior day I don't have to worry about starting from scratch. This only works if the profile on said network actually works. I went to a different computer (because unlike night shifts there's actually a lot of people that work, not just two or four) and my profile didn't move with me. I had spent the better part of the first thirty minutes of my shift trying to find a computer that would load my profile, but there wasn't one. So I sent a ticket to IT and had to find my profile from our shared server before even doing my job.

Wednesday: Same thing from yesterday as I was waiting for IT to resolve my profile issue, because now it wasn't even loading my profile on the computer that I'm used to be on. Add that to the fact that the night before there was a thunderstorm because of the monsoons that occurs this time of year in Arizona. That storm had sprung a leak over my bed and in the middle of the night me and my wife had to move all of our bedroom every which way so that we wouldn't get soaked. We're still waiting for the roofers to repair the leak above before we can fix the ceiling. Add that to the fact that I had to wake up an hour later just to get ready to take the bus for work because my wife needs the car to transport the kids to and from school plus other errands.

Thursday: I just don't get it. Why is all this crap happening to me all this week. My alarm did not go off and I was an hour late getting to work. Simple enough. Luckily my seven-week-old son woke me up crying for food and the wifie took care of that. The only saving grace of my Thursday, IT finally resolved my roaming profile issue so that I can pull up all my tools and whatever without trying to search for it within our shared servers.

Friday: I can't friggin' believe it. I guess I had to take all the crap in the beginning (and by beginning I mean most of the week) to get to a decent day. I think it's either the transition of sifting through all that bull just to get to a decent day was a trial of patience, diligence, and most of all, sticking to a new routine. That and that it was my Friday and I could look forward to my weekend. Oh Happy Day!!!

So as I enjoy my weekend, I'm posting this for a reminder that change is hard, change can be good, and most of all, change always happens. It's all on how someone handles the change is what makes whatever result that comes with them. I just hope that next week, it would be a helluva lot easier than how this week was now that I got my toes wet.

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

A helluva week

Damn. I'm beat. I mean I can't be possibly anymore beat down that I think that I can be now and still able to write in my blog. I have been dealing with personal and professional crap all this past week and leading into this and next week. Two worlds colliding to an epic cataclysm. To put it so that I don't stir up more controversy and possibly leak any confidential information from my employer, I'm just gonna give it a brief rundown of what is becoming the bane of my existence.

So let's start in the beginning. I have been very active with prior engagements (outside of this blog) with my church and my family. My wife and I had been working with Children's Church on Sundays as well as lending our services with our bus ministry to help them outreach to people by providing them transportation to and from their homes to attend church services. We love to give our all when it comes to matters of our faith, beliefs, and ministry. We try to do what we can with what resources we can offer. We are also sending our two oldest boys, Blaine and Skyler, to their Christian School this upcoming year and preparing them for the year to come in that their curriculum is more advanced than some of the public and private schools in our area. Our boys were accepted out of our good faith and works to our church. But what has happened in the past week and in the near future could cause such tragedy in future endeavors.

In the past week, there had been a shift bid for everyone in my department to change their shifts to meet company needs. I had the unfortunate luck of getting a shift that is not going to work with my family life nor my church commitments. This totally blows, especially since the new shifts don't take into effect this upcoming Sunday, during a month that me and my wife are obligated to run Children's Chruch for each Sunday of the month. It could not happen in a worse possible time having this shift change. From my past postings you know that I've recently became a dad again with our infant, Logan. And to sum thing up, without ranting for hours on end, the new schedule would have put my entire family life in jeopardy. This means no time for family meals or any family time, no church, no anything. And wouldn't you know it, that's what happened at first. But with a little fighting with those in power (more like carefully phrased deliberations that took roughly all week to accomplish because honestly I like making a living and having food and a roof for my family), I've managed to achieved a schedule that would work for both my church and family lives.

In fact, I'm posting this just mere moments before I have to go to work because it's the only time that I have to work on my blog. So for a status update I might not be able to post my normal minimal of three days a week on here, but I'll try hard as hell to meet with that commitment as well. Consider this my 'sorry if you missed me and now you know why' post. Anyways, I'm off to seek the crack of dawn and do my duties that warrants me to have a forty hour week. Until next time (hopefully later this week).

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...