mellowtigger | week #23 and just tired (Reply)

I checked the numbers for tech tickets worked by our IT service desk for Monday of this week. The only higher workloads were the first day of the fall semester (a Monday) and the second day of the fall semester (Tuesday). I didn't check the history of weekend numbers for comparison, but they were also quite high. Moreover, we were short-staffed on weekends. We're still missing 1 (Saturday) or 2 (Sunday) FTE positions waiting to be filled, but we also had 1 of the 3 staffed FTEs on vacation. So... short-handed and super busy. It was tiring.

My coworker on 1st shift on Sunday said something to the effect of, "I'm pre-exhausted for Monday already." *laugh* That's exactly right. And then Monday turned out to be awful on its own.

Around home, the warzone was the warzone. There was one day last week that I fell asleep in bed listening to gunfire. I thought, "That's about the edge of my 2-block radius for calling 911, isn't it? But I'm really tired, and I don't want to get up and call 911." The next thing I knew, it was time to get up and get ready for work. I never did check news or websites to learn if anybody died.