Having a slow morning
Jan. 25th, 2018 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyI've been a bit tired this week due to an impending period - which has now arrived. I am, therefore, taking things slowly today.
I have ordered a headset to use with my 'soft phone' and I am very much looking forward to using them. I have synced my desktop software with my calendar so it shows my 'presence' depending on whether I'm in a meeting or at my desk, but I keep forgetting to manually change to 'gone for the day'. I need to work it into my 'leaving for the day routine' BEFORE restarting my machine.
I still love my Surface but the fact that I can't control when the updates happen is a bit of a pain. My machine had some updates on Tuesday night and was definitely unhappy yesterday morning, to the point where I had to restart it again. But, on the whole, it was a great investment by the University on my behalf!
The sort-of-a-project project that I was 'managing' is now officially done-done! I am very pleased but don't feel as elated as I expected to. Actually, I feel a bit flat. It's probably because I managed to get everything else signed off before Christmas but this one little bit was hanging around, thanks to Certain People. There was also a bit of a technical hitch in getting the final group of staff to the point where they could actually use the system but our CRM Development Start managed to wrangle it into submission. I have thanked her profusely - she is new to employment AND is having a bit of a hard time and needs all the encouragement she can get.
My line manager has told our boss about us redrafting my JD and now that the redraft is complete is going to share it with him. We will see what comes back. The JD is nearly 5 years old and actually needed redrafting anyway - some things have disappeared and other things were missing, as well as the higher grade stuff being completely absent. If our boss agrees to it, then it'll be his job to persuade the budget holder...
A very work-y post but that's where I am at the moment!
I have ordered a headset to use with my 'soft phone' and I am very much looking forward to using them. I have synced my desktop software with my calendar so it shows my 'presence' depending on whether I'm in a meeting or at my desk, but I keep forgetting to manually change to 'gone for the day'. I need to work it into my 'leaving for the day routine' BEFORE restarting my machine.
I still love my Surface but the fact that I can't control when the updates happen is a bit of a pain. My machine had some updates on Tuesday night and was definitely unhappy yesterday morning, to the point where I had to restart it again. But, on the whole, it was a great investment by the University on my behalf!
The sort-of-a-project project that I was 'managing' is now officially done-done! I am very pleased but don't feel as elated as I expected to. Actually, I feel a bit flat. It's probably because I managed to get everything else signed off before Christmas but this one little bit was hanging around, thanks to Certain People. There was also a bit of a technical hitch in getting the final group of staff to the point where they could actually use the system but our CRM Development Start managed to wrangle it into submission. I have thanked her profusely - she is new to employment AND is having a bit of a hard time and needs all the encouragement she can get.
My line manager has told our boss about us redrafting my JD and now that the redraft is complete is going to share it with him. We will see what comes back. The JD is nearly 5 years old and actually needed redrafting anyway - some things have disappeared and other things were missing, as well as the higher grade stuff being completely absent. If our boss agrees to it, then it'll be his job to persuade the budget holder...
A very work-y post but that's where I am at the moment!
