| | I figured I may as well go ahead and get my post for the month out of the way  I've actually sat down a couple times this week with intentions of hammering out a post of some sort, but got interrupted by one thing or another each time. So this half-hearted late evening effort is what you get. Deal with it.
I've spent the better part of the day being aggravated. I try to stay positive about life in general, and I think under most circumstances I do a pretty good job. Positive and/or apathetic. Whichever best fits the situation. But dealing with work and all the crap therein lately has left me with a very bitter taste in my mouth. In the year and a half that I've been working in claims, I've mostly enjoyed my job. It has its stressful days, like any job, but I had no complaints. But over the last couple months, things have just gotten crazy. With the company's renewed and increased emphasis on safety (i.e. peeing their pants in fear of OSHA, the DOT, and lawsuit frivolity of every conceivable sort), the hammer is really being dropped on stores - and those working in claims in particular - to deal with their hazardous materials/waste properly, and make sure we're compliant with applicable environmental laws. And it's not like I'm pro-hazard or anti-environment; I'm all in favor of protecting the environment and my co-workers. But some of the new procedural hoops we're being forced to jump through are not only nonsensical, but counter-intuitive and counter-productive. These hoops change almost daily as well, so keeping up with what I can and cannot do becomes a challenge in itself. It's complicated work to the point that I have almost twice as much to do now as I had just a couple months ago. My co-worker and I have been getting a little farther behind each week lately, to the extent that I was asked today to change my schedule and split up my off days because work gets too backed up when I'm not there for two consecutive days. In and of itself, I didn't feel that was such an unreasonable request, and I was surprised that I hadn't been asked before now. But I've already given up all of my vacation time for this year without having used a single day of it, simply because there's no way I can take time away from work. Compounded with about a hundred other problems I've been dealing with at work lately that I don't particularly feel like whining about, the whole mess has me in a state of mind that I don't particularly enjoy being in. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it would be a little easier to bear. But right now it appears that I'm in over my head, 'cause I don't have any more to give. And that's a pretty hollow feeling.
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| | Posted 3/27/2009 11:58 PM - 20 Views - 14 eProps - 7 comments
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