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Suicune's Fire
Not today, but Thursday. Just a disaster of a day.
Essentially I started this new job at the start of August as a contracted helping hand, and about a month in, management was like: "the VIC team handles four states; wanna handle three of them by yourself?" and I just was sort of like "ajiofniug I guess?" Complete deep-end and learned how to do everything on the fly. I work way over my contracted hours because I don't want excess work to fall onto my team, and also don't want to fall behind. I liaise with a few third-party companies we work through and have to be in constant contact while also being in contact with customers and trying to organise deliveries, etc. Without going into too much detail, it's just...a lot. I've constantly had anxiety stomach and it's breaking me down bit by bit... lol. I've had help here and there, but we just do not have the staff, and headcount approval is so damn tough to get. As a result my whole team is under so much stress, and nobody has the capacity to be constantly helping me with coordinating three freaking states because the volume is less than VIC.
On Thursday basically everything went wrong, I felt like it was my fault because I was juggling three-billion things, and it just all became too much. I left the house at 7am and got home after 9pm, and like huddled in a corner and cried for half an hour, just entirely overwhelmed and stressed. xD Then like attempted to eat and got like two spoonfuls in, then went to bed. I came into work Friday and cried a bit, but then we had a team huddle and worked things out, and now my immediate problem is solved (at a compromise) and this coming week is gonna put everything to the test. Constantly angry customers, leaning on people for support, pushing our third-party companies while being like "I'm really sorry" and running out of energy very quickly. My stomach has been in knots and I don't know when this will stop. Volume-wise, it should cool down in about a week before it'll ramp back up towards the end of November, but I know that's wishful thinking. We just need more people and it feels like my small team and I are holding the fort until backup arrives.
Bleeehhhh!
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