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It's Friday???? Feels More Like A Monday to Me....But oh am I so glad it's not!!!! LOL
Yesterday was so smooth, I got home and felt like it had finally started to click. I was rockin. By afternoon I was just hitting one tire repair set up after another With hardly a breath in between and when I wasn't needing to do that I was paying repair bills and checking my email and everything else I am supposed to be doing with somewhat of a rhythm. I went home feeling I had actually figured it out,Of course I know there are much tougher things I need to get copmfotable with and am far from trained.
Today all H*ll broke loose. I fought through finding a tire for one man for easily an hour, every one I called either didn't have the type of tire needed and /or couldn't get out to do the repair for a couple hours and didn't want to take the job if I could find closer shops. Who would know one small corner of Indiana would seem so remote? I literally pulled my hair out and finally found someone who could go out. LAter I found out that even though I had asked someone, and they told me they don't like to put the steering tires tread on the back of the truck , they would have preferred I go with the wrong tire and then get him to our shops to change it , than to have someone go out from so far.
Then another repair went sour because noone really knew about the particular yard and who they would normally use because the yard was a shipper where we have a few trailers and a yard man. I managed to get someone to help, but they couldn't do the tire as well as the reapir and another repair shop had to go out.
Add to that , I did one repair, and was told by the trainer thant I needed to enter a apraisal on the driver for poor work habits, but when I did it later another coordinator told me it should have been handled by safety first. , So I guess I was not the only one who learned new things today.LOL
Throw in learning how to do 3 different new things that came up in the course of my work load.
They all laugh and tell me Welcome to our world, and you'll learn new things all the time no matter how long you are here, But Me, I am my toughest critic in everything I do.
All along Mondays and Fridays I have felt like I was on my own to figure out how to keep myself busy with the stuff I knew how to do. The main guy trianing me only works 3 days a week as he is semi retired. Each week I have added new tasks I have learned to do, and I can keep myself real busy. As far as taking repairs off the list I have been tentative to not grab something from the wrong persons team and upset someone. I have been paired with one guy, and a couple others have expressed they don't care, so slowly I began to get into it. Today one of the coordinators was off for the day and I was essentially told to take whatever I could of his to help out.
I still have not been told to change to the evening shift, so Monday I go in early again. Maybe Monday will feel more like a friday, without the perk of the weekend coming up of course.LOL Happy Thanksgiving EveryoneThings are as busy as always here, The training zapps my mind and body so I come home wiped out every evening. Just when I feel I have accomplished something I have a day when I am so confused I don't even know where I am nor even my name,LOL All in all it is coming along as expected though,and I will soon be on the afternoon schedule. I just hope I can keep up and continue to learn my expected job.
It is easy to get into the zone of mousing ,copying and pasting and forget how your job effects ppl. Today I had to help a couple drivers broke down with flat tires. For the most part I completed the task correctly,only forgot to ask for an expected time of arrival on the first one. Murphy's law still played it's hand though,when the promised repair truck for 2-3 hrs didn't show up as expected leaving the driver sitting wondering if help was ever coming. Beyond my control I know,all I could do was make phone calls and ask for info then relay it to the poor driver. I still felt bad, learned next time I should check with a second shop when someone tells me they already have several calls out. The next shop may or may not be able to get there sooner. With this as well as other parts of my job,I learn best from on hands experience. I have no dought it will get better.
I wanted to drop a quick note here to wish everyone a great Thanksgiving Holiday,and even my Canadian friends, there is no reason you can't use our Holiday as an excuse to eat a piece of pie you know.LOL I am having a much needed long weekend ,and since they don't require 90 days to be eligable for holiday pay I will even get paid. Yeah!!! ExhaustionDon't mean to be so distant from the neighborhood.
The truth is,I have been completely whiped out. The early mornings are getting harder every day, I struggle to get up and around in the mornings,often leaving just in the nick of time. I have only had a few moments to capture a sunrise or two.Sometimes I don't even take the camera along. My 10 hr shifts leave me little time in the evenings,and I have progressively gotten more exhausted.
I know adjusting to the work schedule combined with the switch to standard time and the lack of sunlight are a big part of my tiredness,but this exhaustion seems more extreme. IStarting last Friday I began struggling to keep awake off and on all day,and was coming home too exhausted to even enjoy the evening,a few nights I even went to bed early to no avail. Sinus congestion has been a problem too,and I believe maybe there is more to this than just too little sleep,so since I was also due to have my cholesterol rechecked I fineggled a Dr. appointment on Saturday. to discuss possibilities. They usually keep Saturday mornings for more emergent type cases,and were booked with thier quota of regular medical needs,but my schedule doesn't alow for weekday office hours,so they bent the rules for me.
Work is going good,I am learning something new everyday,just when I get somewhat comfortable with one aspect of the job without screwing up too many times ,they throw a new task at me. Ispent the afternoon inundated with setting up appointments for drivers to get regular services on equiptment done at various truckstops in the country. It seemed that as soon as they turned me out to do this,everybiody who ever needed a service started crawling out of the woodwork. I got so swamped trying to keep up I lost track and screwed up one order real good. Thankfully it was fixable.LOL
I am going to be keeping up this schedule until post holiday,when I will look forward to a shift that allows me some daylight at least enough to take a liesurely drive to work on country roads. Hopefully with some daylight and whatever the Dr. comes up with I will begin to feel human agian. Mondays Stink, Tuesday Not So BAdMOnday was one of those days. No matter what I touched it was either confusing and took me forever to figure out,was messed up to gegin with so I couldn't work on it,or I made a complete mess out of it. I chalked it up to MONDAYs. Never good.LOL
Today was alot better. I started my morning figuring noone would be in to set me up with invoices yet,I scanned the small pile left from Friday. WHen I got back to my desk I had found someone who had a few invoices for me to work up. By the time I got done with that the man who has been training me when he is at work was ready to teach me how to work up invoices from a vendors web site. By the end of the day I was pretty much handling them alone. When heis training there is an atmosphere of teasing and fun. He says it is more important that I strive for accuracy and to get an organized work flow established . Speed comes later. I appreciate he doesn't flip out when I say "OH OH, I screwed something up again" LOL
The days seem like a complete loss for personal time. The sun is rising as I head to work,and the sun is setting as I leave. I was going to take the camera today to capture the sunrise since I missed a gorgeous one Monday. When I got up,there wasn't a cloud in the sky,so I knew there wouldn't be much of a show,I left the camera home again for convenience. Maybe tomorrow I will take it.
One evening this week I want to do a photo shoot of the new baby and Mommy. Just no energy tonight. She is a good baby,the only time she really screams is when you undress her to change or bathe her. She hates to be undressed. The little porker is eating 3 oz a feeding and acts like she wants more. She is taking water in smll amounts in between.
Well,Tomorrow is hump day. Better go so I can get to bed early. Introductions
I am sooooo tired.,LOL These early mornings seem to get earlier every day. By the time I feel relaxed it is time to go to bed. My blogging and flickring is really falling back.Guess I have to decide which contacts to visit on a regular basis so I can keep my sanity.LOL
I went to visit my neice today at the hospital.She is getting around well,and not too uncomfortable. The baby is still spending time in the special needs nursery,but she is gaining better O2 retention,so they let her out with a monitor for short periods to visit in the room.She is so big in comparison to other babies,She seems like a month old already. She barely fits in newborn sleepers,so she is gonna wear them while she still can,I don't think that will be long. She is a grubber,no surprise there. Momma was a grubber during the pregnancy,seems Baby H was telling her to eat cause she was HUNGRY. For being so big,she is not too chubby. She was 21 inches long,Here cheeks are only slightly chubby,and she does have a healthy tummy on her. I took some photos to remember the occasion,but the lighting really was bad,and I am not sure I like how they turned out. I will edit to make the most of them,and when she is home I cqn get better ones.
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