Posted by fallsfall on March 28, 2004, at 19:59:49
In reply to Re: How do I get out of this mess?, posted by DaisyM on March 28, 2004, at 13:17:03
After Dinah and Karen_Kay got me to stop panicking, I napped for 2 hours. Then I called the Children's Librarian and she said she could come in and help. I worked 4 hours, she was there for 2 - and we got about half of the backlog done! So I feel better. I couldn't quite see not doing anything today and being overwhelmed tomorrow. I also cleaned things up a little, so it isn't quite such a mess.
My boss will come in Monday at 12, and I'll show up when I can (2?). We should be able to finish without a problem, and I think the Children's librarian will come in a little, too.
The people I work with aren't mad at me. Everyone is telling me that I shouldn't feel badly, but I do because I did the time estimates and they were way way off. So I think that I should have done better and we could have avoided this whole thing.
(To answer some questions - if you start one section of the inventory, but don't finish it, when you do it later (next week, or in a month) you have to start it all over again. So if we didn't finish what we started on Saturday before we opened again (Tuesday), then it would be throwing away the work that we DID do. I'll have to remember to do things like this on Saturday afternoon again because we do have 2 whole days when we are closed, and so there is time to recover from disasters.)
This will certainly be a topic of discussion tomorrow in therapy. I will ask him if I should have called. I was really undecided about that. I think I *was* upset enough, and it *was* about the exact topic that we've been discussing the last two sessions. But it was Sunday morning, I don't have a feeling for what he does on the weekends. I guess I'll have to ask.
Thank goodness for Babble! I would have been in real trouble if I had no where to ask for help! (My real live support people are not too available right now, one is in the hospital, another is in Australia for 4 months).
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