The Business Work Horse

I volunteered for it, but I didn't realize just how frazzled I might get. I am putting in tons of overtime at the job this week. I worked Labor Day for 8 hours, Tuesday through Thursday from 9AM - 11PM, a regular 8 hour shift on Friday and 8 hours today. I'm also the oncall person this week. If you add all of that up (double time and a half for Labor Day and time and a half for everything over 48), I'm getting paid for over 85 hours and still have more oncall today to add to it, I'm sure. Since I'm oncall tomorrow, it will mean overtime for next week, too.

Why am I suddenly this glutton for punishment? M-O-N-E-Y!! I will be getting paid for over 2 weeks worth of work for just this week alone. If the oncall adds up to more, I could end up with 100 hours of paid time in one week. We get paid the 15th and last day of the month and the way the pay periods are I won't be getting these hours until the end of the month. I'm hopeful this means I can finally get a car.

I've been very fortunate being without a car for such a long time. I've had friends loan me their vehicles to get my girls every other weekend and a co-worker and my roommate make sure I get back and forth to work. I've also been able to line up a ride for the upcoming softball season. It's good to have friends, that is for sure!

It has taken a small toll on me. I'm not getting much sleep due to some very rude (well, probably not really) people who call for assistance. The first two calls I got (and got credit for) had things resolved by the time I called them back. One caller this morning at 5:15AM Central was already in her branch on Eastern time and had a question that didn't even pertain to my group. If she had dialed the right option when calling, she'd have gotten an answer from the right group. Another caller at 6:30AM this morning was already trying to get into her PC and knowing that we would actually have someone in the office at 7AM (me getting up at 6:15AM was the plan to be at work by 7AM) still had to call instead of waiting a mere 30 minutes. These people all realize that our oncall is between 11pm and 7am when people are sleeping. There are the occasional emergencies, which is why we have someone oncall, but if a couple of them would have waited 10 minutes before calling and one 30 minutes and one calling the right group, I may have had a few more hours of sleep this week. Of course, I also wouldn't have gotten an hours worth of credit for each call, either, so when the last day of the month comes, I will feel much better about those calls.

Now I wonder how much extra money that will be....