Well, here we go again.

[ordnance11]

robkelk wrote:

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ordnance11 wrote:

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Okay, this is not fun. I just got an email from DC stating that they'd like to do a 1 hour test where they give me a scenario and I have one hour write a report. and I have duty officer week. Also called hell week. I am going to see if I can push it to next monday, otherwise I'll have to do it an hour before the crazy day starts. Not fun. The things I do for God and country.

Could they possibly be timing things that way on purpose, to see how you react to that much stress at once? If working "inside the Beltway" (which you would be metaphorically if you're drafting policy) is anything like working on Parliament Hill, you'd be looking at 16-hour days as a matter of course.

Rob, let me explain what this week is like. We (that means me and my supervisor) had to have a conference with U.S.Army Material Command people over technical data. Then we had to send out to the Region office a case that is novel (read something not normally seen). And the Solicitors are jittery because they want an expert to bless the case and they have not talked to one yet. And to that the duty officer (read customer service) I had to perform during the day. The phone system is dysfunctional since 2 years ago (and hasn't been fixed). Our newly hired admin assistant cannot answer the general phone line phone 9line), so guess who has to answer the general phone line along with the duty officer phone? I deal with people who either have a beef with their competitors, so their ratting them out, people who claim we need to go over to the other side of the state to see something horrible, but won't provide details, people who get mad that Uncle Sam can't help them with their particular problems, sorting out the entire mess to see what's legit and what's fake. present the mess to the AD, get her final decision, process the paperwork with the printer far away, fax letters, email letters if no fax (scan letters first then email it)....
*sigh*
repeat for 5 days
I need fur therapy
So if she/he doing it on purpose, he/she has got to be a sadist on par with Marquis de Sade.
I'm going to bed.
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