Today has been frustrating for me. Why is that my deadlines do not mean anything to others? I plan and plan and make list after list to ensure that I meet deadlines for my work. However, others just disregard the requests that I give them and give me their information whenever their little hearts feel like it. As I have mentioned before, I have a grant due on Tuesday at 4pm. This is a significant grant for over $1 million & has taken a lot of my work to pull together all of the components. The budget pages alone for this federal grant number over 30 pages! So, imagine my horror when I got a call this afternoon from the office that approves our proposals so we can submit them & I am requested to make a change. A call like this at 2pm on a Friday afternoon is outrageous! So, I get to spend time this weekend changing my budget & making all of the adjustments to the federal forms. Then, to make my afternoon even more icky (and I am using a nice word here!!), I found out that the person I was working with to write part of the narrative (a VERY small part!!) hadn’t even started yet! I have given this person multiple deadlines throughout the month & every one of them has been missed. So, now, I will get a narrative on Friday afternoon that I still have to incorporate into the entire document. In addition to the lateness in getting this to me, this person also informs me that I will have to now write some of the sections that they are responsible for. WHAT??!! So, not only do I get to spend a good hour changing my budgets, but now I get to spend HOURS finishing up a narrative that should have been completed when I got back on Wednesday. And, because this is a federal grant submitted through a website that is having issues lately, I also have to have it to my work place’s office to be submitted by Monday morning. This will give us time to fix things if the website encounters errors. I’m so upset about this that it is making me cry. I was completely prepared to work this weekend, but to have all of this on top of it is really sending me over the edge. And, all of this could have been avoided if the other people had just met my deadlines. The budget was given to this person 2 weeks ago & the narrative has been an expectation for over a month! All I can say is that I truly do not get paid enough for this!!
I saw a funny quote today that I had to share: "The road to hell is paved with adverbs." Stephen King. In my case, it would probably be adjectives!
Positives for today
- I got some nice feedback from one of the parents on my life skills class I have been teaching – always nice to be appreciated
- One of my coworkers gave me a “smile on a stick” – too funny!
- The day is done – could not have ended any worse, so glad to be moving on to Saturday.
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