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Date: 29 September 2008 22:15:40
As I said yesterday, I don't want to constantly moan about work on my blog. So I'm rather pleased to say that two Very Good Things happened at work today.
Our office is primarily split into three teams, dealing with different areas of the city. We've all been particularly busy the last few weeks, but one team especially have been struggling due to a shortage of staff for various reasons. So last Friday I was asked to go and spend the day working with them, helping to answer their phones and reduce their backlog of paperwork etc. Now that's not a problem in itself, except that all the time I'm working on their stuff, I'm not working on my stuff, and then I get behind on things. Well, after much discussion, it was decided today that I won't be going over to help them all day tomorrow as initially planned; instead their backlog is being divided up between everyone else. This is a Very Good Thing because it means I can concentrate on my stuff (of which I have more than enough to be going on with, thank you) without worrying that I'm missing something important as I go.
As you've probably gathered, we all seem somewhat overworked. Which brings us to the second Very Good Thing. As the other two teams are generally considered to be more short-staffed than my team (which is not to say we couldn't do with an extra pair of hands, just that we're considered to not need the extra pair of hands as much as they do), it was decided by The Powers That Be that we would get a new full time member of staff for one of the teams and a new part time member of staff for the other. Well, today we discovered that The Powers That Be have actually decided that we'll get three new staff instead of two - so we're getting a new part time person while the two other teams get a full time each.
In a way it's such a little thing, and yet it will make such a big difference. When we get bogged down with stuff, I often joke about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and then realising it's actually a train coming towards me; well, this doesn't necessarily show us to the end of the tunnel (it's a very long tunnel that just seems to go on forever) but it gives us enough light to convince us we can keep going. I will sleep well tonight.