At the end of our 2 hour emergency status/triage meeting that started at 9:30 this morning, my boss looks at me and just says "How is it only Wednesday?" and my head developer flopped on the floor. He's not a flopper. He's a yeller and thrower. But that pretty much sums up how this week is going.
The good news is, I continued to display my comprehensive understanding of all the moving parts in the system and how they interact and diagnosed and temporarily halted the problem that had cropped up overnight until the dev people could fix the bug. And was proven right in saying a different issue was a non-issue (and in fact by design.)
However, I was also annoyed that I had to pull a stand-up-from-my-chair-teacher-voice EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP TALKING AND FOCUS. OK? OK. These are the issues we've resolved and need to table... etc.
On the one hand, god knows I secretly love putting on my bossy-hat and taking over the meeting that way. My inner tyrant was cackling with glee. On the other, I'd started it perfectly civilized, but then people started talking all over each other (god I hate webex sometimes- it makes it worse) and me. Mainly me, which...yeah, don't do that. Ever. I get everyone is fried and wired up, but no.
I need to remember this next time I'm feeling particularly incompetent and useless at work. And when we do my performance appraisal discussion. Because I know one of the things to come up is me taking on more leadership roles.
BUT DEAR GOD THIS WEEK.