work, work, work (and repeat)

to much work, so little time... giving most of the managers most of the two weeks of these holidays off has shown me how poorly they are doing their jobs as they did not prepare well and left me a whole lot of messes and potential messes to clean up... we will find a way to explain that to them when they get back next year... meanwhile, i am working 14-16 hours a day doing six jobs besides my own... seven today... i had to have four directors, five managers, and ten supervisors, and eighty staff when i started last year... now i have four directors, two managers, two coordinators, five supervisors, and over seventy staff and we are expected to get the job done just as well... and vacant positions include one director (nursing, an essential one who has no back-up or lateral coverage), one coordinator (administrative, who again has no lateral support and is the glue that keeps logistics together), and one supervisor (the dietary manager, where nobody really has the skills or knowledge or desire to fill in well)... so i am doing a lot of work and not keeping the help or support i need because a half of my team is new and needs training (and there's no time to train and get the job done cuz i am doing all the vancancy jobs) and couple of my team are lazy finger-pointing not-team players and i don't have time to put together the package needed to pressure them into doing their jobs or losing their jobs so i am doing just that by pressuring them to fill in and do more... yeah, i need to fill the vacancies and train all the newbies and that takes time... especially when the right candidate is not applying...

it would be nice to have more of a life to share that would balance and distract me from the work life, but the tv and the voices in my head are the only companions around most of the time cuz i keep saying no to social invites cuz i am tired and don't want to give up the little me-time i have to drive far to hang with people i don't necessarily want to hang with (a couple, maybe, but most, nope)... softball starts up again this weekend, both teams practicing (alas, the friday night team, which would be a third team, did not get signed up on time just like last year)... i ought to head out to the seniors who practice sunday mornings (get to the fields at 8am, no wonder why i don't) and get on one of their friday night teams, or other night teams... yeah, if there was only more time... gotta rest and sleep more, which is life and death stuff, and i don't do that either...

and how are you tonight?...

narf :)