Tired Thursday

I hardly slept last night. First I woke around one on the morning and was up till about three, and then I woke again at twenty to five. I had some very strange dreams and throughout the night couldn't work out whether I'm hot or cold.

At work, I'm catching up on everything that fell behind with all the rushing and meetings so far. I also smell some restructuring affecting me, particularly. Whatever. Managing two departments, both of which are in complete chaos, is simply impossible. While production was 'running' without much supervision, I could start cleaning up the Store (I don't like this name, it's a warehouse, not a shop - although, the way everyone wanders in and rummages through the shelves, maybe store is more accurate?). But now we have large orders, and to meet targets requires closer supervision - and if I do that, the store falls behind again. I also realise that the inventory system is nowhere near as complete as I thought! I'm finding loads and loads of loopholes and gaps ... where I need to design some sort of structure to cover them. For example, Person A books in 325 of Product 1 during the night shift. When we check, we find that quantity is not correct  ...

It's a nightmare, all on its own - and getting pressure for not pushing production in the factory while I'm trying to sort out these issues ... not helping. If this new structure takes some pressure off me, good for me. Only question is: How much of what I've implemented will now fall away? Be deemed unnecessary? Well, that should not be my circus, nor my monkeys!

In the afternoon I asked about the restructuring - and I was pleasantly surprised to have a professional talk, where ideas were put on the table and my opinion was asked. Basically, the 'production' part of my three hats will fall away - from me, that is. Although it does hurt my pride a little, naturally. But it was done in a really nice way. I've been afraid of this happening - but at the same time, I'm truly relieved, because the work-load is simply too much for one person to handle.

I left work somewhat late, yet, since traffic was minimal, I was home at my normal time - so I stopped and got another two bottles of milk for the weekend.

Mippies had a great time outside and came back inside on their own. I gave them their treats, then shared my dinner - as usual - and went to bed. I just had no energy nor time to update the blog ...