Not as bad as expected...
I just typed out a very thoughtful post about work but Safari shut down and it was gone... so now, in brief...
this week = hell week
we 1) launched a new website and 2) upgraded our database software 3) during audit and 4) a week after our new Exec. Dir. started. (they planned it while I was away at jury duty and couldn't stop them!)
And it all started last night, about an hour before our webmaster and project manager was called to the hospital where his wife was in labor! She's not due for another few weeks, but these things have a way of happening. Luckily for him, he works for a company that likes babies so he was allowed to leave. Many places wouldn't have let him.
So today I spent 3 hours doing installs at a dozen work stations, 2 and a half hours fixing an invoice that worked YESTERDAY (after I spent 2 and a half weeks fixing it), and many many hours talking people through everything being different. There's still a lot that doesn't work, but I was allowed to leave at normal time tonight so I could come back rested tomorrow to work on the rest of it.
We're by no means out of the woods, but really, it hasn't been as bad as I expected.
this week = hell week
we 1) launched a new website and 2) upgraded our database software 3) during audit and 4) a week after our new Exec. Dir. started. (they planned it while I was away at jury duty and couldn't stop them!)
And it all started last night, about an hour before our webmaster and project manager was called to the hospital where his wife was in labor! She's not due for another few weeks, but these things have a way of happening. Luckily for him, he works for a company that likes babies so he was allowed to leave. Many places wouldn't have let him.
So today I spent 3 hours doing installs at a dozen work stations, 2 and a half hours fixing an invoice that worked YESTERDAY (after I spent 2 and a half weeks fixing it), and many many hours talking people through everything being different. There's still a lot that doesn't work, but I was allowed to leave at normal time tonight so I could come back rested tomorrow to work on the rest of it.
We're by no means out of the woods, but really, it hasn't been as bad as I expected.