Trying to hold off a panic attack/meltdown. Had a meeting with big boss and co-worker about work loads, ostensibly since my boss, the deputy to big boss has left.

There is no rush to replaced my boss. Big Boss does not seem to hear me when I say that my workload did not come from boss, but from COVID. Now sure I am not being utilized to my full potential, neither am I 100% busy. But this convo felt very much like, since you don't have a boss to support, your position is probably not full time anymore and what can we do about that?

Like fuckin YIKES!

Also co-worker would be less overwhelmed if she had any process documents in place about what she does. None. It is a whole thing to get trained on how to do anything.

Oh dear, msbelle. Hope that works out ok!

Boss that is gone is the one that was so squirrelly about calendar and timesheeet and communication i general?

I got as far as opening up my appraisal template to think about maybe starting that and it just filled me with despair. Maybe if I can find last year's appraisal to work from that would help. Although meanwhile I have normal Monday work stuff to do...

Hil, I'm sorry about your aunt. I hope today is a better day for her. How are you feeling?

Oh, msbelle, that does sound unfun. I, too, have done the "person I now report to literally has no idea of my job" and it is not a comfortable place. I wish you useful communication.

I couldn't begin to tell you the last time I ironed. Usually, I'm like Laura, I remove it from the dryer promptly and that's good enough. However, right now I have a Ravenclaw shirt a friend made for me (with her Cricut) and some of the letters are coming a bit loose. I need to pull out the iron and board to give them a good pressing (melting?) before I wash and (especially) dry it. 'Fraid the steamer won't help in that case.

-t, I can't tell you how much help Atropa's summary was when I was doing my self-appraisal earlier this year. I still had to do the individual sections, but then I put her words (slightly tailored to my specific situation) in the comments and I felt much better - like I had said what I was thinking, but in a way that wouldn't get me fired.

Eeep, msbelle. Communication really helps! I'm sorry Big Boss isn't hearing.

Monday. Work stuff is actually pretty slow so I am doing clearing of paperwork stuff.

Also, I received the replacement coffee pot for my nice coffee/espresso machine, and only now realized the espresso pot was also cracked. Sigh. Back to the search engine.

It's being a very Monday-ish Monday. To lighten the day, here's an ad.

I got as far as opening up my appraisal template to think about maybe starting that and it just filled me with despair.

This is me every year. It usually takes about a week of staring at it before I can work up the spoons to start typing.

No -t, the confusing communicator is the big boss. My boss basically never talked with me. We never met and she never did a 6 month review.

It seems totally wakkadoodle to me to not prioritize hiring a deputy because you "have no time to train" and "no-one would have her job knowledge from years with the county". Regardless of those facts, was she doing work that still needs doing? And is that work going to be burdons on others to pick up?

Does not make sense. In the meantine, I am getting a project from another division that they need help with and I am documenting the shit out of everything do, plus things I see that need doing, plus anything I could be doing but that co-worker has not shown me how.