Awww hope you have a better day today Jane! Sucks how work can really get to us sometimes.

I had a sucky day on Friday because the project I was looking forward to doing got canned. :( Was so frustrating because I totally understand the reason it got canned, but because of daft processes and contracts and politics there is nothing I can do about it. And now I have hardly any work on which is sooooooo boring. I hate having nothing to do.

One thing I find makes for a bad day is other people's inability/unwillingness to answer the phone. Why is it that some days every number you call goes to voicemail (and every email response is an out of office reply)? I have a rule now - I will only ring you once and if you chose not to answer, the ball's in your court, you return my call, I'm not ringing you again.

Being at the wrong end of the foodchain under four levels of management and a couple of politicians means that a bad day at work for me can be truly unpleasant. Again, without going into gory details. However it does enlighten one greatly on the subject of how much power MP's *think* they have (all the power) compared to how much power they *actually* have (there's ONE law, and it's the same law for everyone). People who work in MP's offices can be absolutely shocking to deal with though, as they come in all guns blazing and try to act like they personally are running the country. Guess what, if your job title shows that you're basically the person in charge of clearing out the drains and making cups of tea ... well, if you try leaning on me you're going to be asked if you like sex and travel :-)

Well im not realy going to get into what I do (im not ashamed id just rather they didnt find out I was blogging during worktime) suffice to say I deal with people on a daily basis which often results in unhappy people for a variety of different reasons.

I have to get in contact with people on a daily basis and give them either good or bad news if I have dished out a lot of bad news that can get me down but hopefully there is enough good news to give so it all evens out in the end!

Pretty much the same - communicating with people and failing. Systems failing. Stupid people failing. Whole lot of fail going on.

Though I take heart in the fact I'm not the guy who worked as a deep sea diver and had the warm water pumped down through his suit to keep him from getting hypothermia. His bad day at work was when a jellyfish got sucked up by the warm water pump, shredded and pumped down the pipe and bits of jellyfish circulated through his suit. There was a delay of several hours until they could get him back to the surface which would have felt even longer being stuck by bits of jellyfish everywhere during that time.

@ Jane Yee

If you get stressed by difficult "characters", I want to be a fly on the wall if you get to meet with Lady Gaga next week, rofl ;-) That girl is a freeeeeeeak.

Btw, Jane, for our lunch meeting next week I will require a large bowl of yellow M&Ms, brown pebbles and pink jellybeans, in equal proportions. For drinks, I will require you to personally hand-cut a chunk of ice from Icebeg B-17B and carry it to my table while dressed like Rambo (WITH machine gun). Oh, and instead of using my name, you should address me as "Captain Awesome" (spot the fan of Chuck - no surprises there, lol). Please remember to bow down graciously as you say it :-)

You lucky girl. Even if this week is crap, you now have next week to look forward to with eager anticipation :-)

It must be something about this week because I've had two days in a row now that started off having to sort out stressful 'communication' issues! After working a few years in retail dealing with difficult customers daily, my job now is pretty stress free, but this week has been different. I'll just go for a run or play some bass at the end of the day and everything will be all good again!

Plus there are plenty of people dealing with stuff 1000 times worse than what I have to so it's all good really. Hope your week gets better Jane!

Hang in there.

Poor Jane. I hope your week picks up. Sometimes I have days when I just can't seem to explain myself in a way that the other person understands, and it sure sucks.

I've had a couple of notable bad days recently, with my workload unexpectedly doubling. No, that wasn't an exaggeration. It actually did double overnight. It was all a communicatons issue - they didn't bother to communicate to my team what they needed us to do, and now there are only a couple of months left in which to do a vast ammount of work. This happens every year in my Department when they see the end of the financial year approaching and get into a flap. In some ways it's no bad thing, since it gave me a legitimate excuse to shovel off a chore I don't want to do onto a colleague I don't like, but it did come as a shock.

"...I'm not communicating effectively. I've spent the last two days trying to explain things from my side of the story..."

Sounds like my really, really bad week last week... which culminated in a bad day at work Friday - being advised there will be redundancies at 1 July and my job is in the firing line.