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Why so hard...?
Apr. 3rd, 2024 09:19 pmMy banking app has been playing up the last couple of days. Yesterday, it said it needed to be uninstalled and a new version installed. Today, it wouldn't co-operate, so I did the whole uninstall/reinstall again. I'm installing it from the Google Store and it's authenticated, so I'm not concerned about the security. It's just annoying to spend 15 minutes doing something that should take about 2!
I managed to get my arse into gear enough to set off early this morning and renewed husband's prescription on the way in to the office.
Had an online call with a colleague who's had a pretty shit time lately - and discovered it's actually got a lot shitter recently. Between my presence being patchy due to husband and theirs being patchy due to the original shit, I haven't seen much of them for the past year, probably. We've booked a coffee break on Friday, so we can catch up and I can offer appropriate sympathy.
However, the work matter that we were SUPPOSED to be talking about, and did eventually get round to, is something I feel is a really positive move. I do believe it'll make a lot of things make a lot more sense in the long run. They just need to find the positives in it for themselves.
Another colleague I was supposed to be meeting up with tomorrow asked to push it back a week due to work pressures - which actually suits me because this week I feel I'm just chasing my tail! Lots of little meetings to get myself, or other people, up to speed on stuff, with the spaces in between filled with a myriad of little jobs. I've just been dashing from one thing to another. So, getting an hour back tomorrow morning feels like a blessing!
But I do feel I'm getting on top of it all. We now have two alternate versions of the PM Framework - we just need to agree which one we're going to use, lock it down, and bring everything in line. Which may mean unpicking some of the work Tigger has done but I actually don't mind being the one to do that. I do wish they'd kept everything under wraps until we'd dotted all the 'i's and crossed all the 't's, though, because people are naturally frustrated by things changing repeatedly. Using the new functionality isn't the problem - it's not being sure something isn't going to change next week! As Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies likes to say, 'People don't dislike change - they dislike having change done TO them.'. I'm trying to act as a bit of a buffer, but there's only so much I can do.
Still, a Tigger-free week is very welcome.
I did manage to finish a quest (loving your work, Uncle Byron!) and a couple of hunts in FFXVI, which is always a good way to end the day.
Another bitty day beckons tomorrow, but Liverpool are on the telly in the evening, so I'm hoping to get through at least some of the quests on Ash.
I managed to get my arse into gear enough to set off early this morning and renewed husband's prescription on the way in to the office.
Had an online call with a colleague who's had a pretty shit time lately - and discovered it's actually got a lot shitter recently. Between my presence being patchy due to husband and theirs being patchy due to the original shit, I haven't seen much of them for the past year, probably. We've booked a coffee break on Friday, so we can catch up and I can offer appropriate sympathy.
However, the work matter that we were SUPPOSED to be talking about, and did eventually get round to, is something I feel is a really positive move. I do believe it'll make a lot of things make a lot more sense in the long run. They just need to find the positives in it for themselves.
Another colleague I was supposed to be meeting up with tomorrow asked to push it back a week due to work pressures - which actually suits me because this week I feel I'm just chasing my tail! Lots of little meetings to get myself, or other people, up to speed on stuff, with the spaces in between filled with a myriad of little jobs. I've just been dashing from one thing to another. So, getting an hour back tomorrow morning feels like a blessing!
But I do feel I'm getting on top of it all. We now have two alternate versions of the PM Framework - we just need to agree which one we're going to use, lock it down, and bring everything in line. Which may mean unpicking some of the work Tigger has done but I actually don't mind being the one to do that. I do wish they'd kept everything under wraps until we'd dotted all the 'i's and crossed all the 't's, though, because people are naturally frustrated by things changing repeatedly. Using the new functionality isn't the problem - it's not being sure something isn't going to change next week! As Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies likes to say, 'People don't dislike change - they dislike having change done TO them.'. I'm trying to act as a bit of a buffer, but there's only so much I can do.
Still, a Tigger-free week is very welcome.
I did manage to finish a quest (loving your work, Uncle Byron!) and a couple of hunts in FFXVI, which is always a good way to end the day.
Another bitty day beckons tomorrow, but Liverpool are on the telly in the evening, so I'm hoping to get through at least some of the quests on Ash.
