At the Wire at 11:50 PM

Just got home from work...I'm trying to use the time while everyone's gone to put in some long hours at the beginning of the week and get caught up on things at the office. Today I did some out-of-my-office things while everyone was gone (since that's the only time I can really get some peace and get things done outside my office), so tomorrow I'll look to close my door and pretend I'm not there so I can catch up on paperwork and such. Not my favorite, but if I do it all at once and get to a nice starting point, hopefully I can stay caught up this time. It should be a bit easier than it has been, since I'll be getting some more help.

Since you asked, I'll tell you. At my job, the management team consists of the manager (me), two assistants, two center supervisors, and at least one training supervisor. Since April, I've only had one assistant. Since August, I've had no training supervisor. So my assistant and I have essentially been doing the job of four people (the center supervisors can't do a lot of what assistants and training supervisors do.) And now my one assistant is taking another position, and one of my center supervisors is stepping down because the position got to be too much for her. So it's just me and one other person. On the bright side, I've got a new assistant that started today, and I hired a training supervisor as well. There's also a guy coming down from Fort Wayne (I hired him when I was up there), and he wants to apply for my vacant second assistant position. So if that works out, I'll go from almost nothing to almost everything in the time that it takes to train an assistant and a training supervisor (about two or three months, depending on certain things.) And now you see why I never talk about work. You're welcome. Back with more tomorrow.