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I knew I had to go into work Saturday, since I had to close out the pay period. I made my edits and put the final touches on the timesheets, printed them out, and printed out any status change forms. I figured I’d be there for 3, maybe 4 hours at most. Of course, being Super Bowl Weekend there were still lots of shifts to fill, so my help was desperately needed. Super Dispatch Guy and the Night Director both were on the phone, calling people and looking at the schedules to see where we could shuffle people around to make things work. Then, all hell broke loose.

There were supposed to be 2 guards at a specific post. One was calling us, telling us she couldn’t find the other guard. And come to think of it, dispatch never heard the other guard call in that he was on post. Hmmm. But, not only is the other guard not on post, the security vehicle was not where it should have been. We knew it was there, because the previous shift was using it. But now it’s nowhere to be found. A patrol supervisor showed up on the site to help find the missing security car. As they were looking, the car went zipping past them. A few more passes and descriptions of the driver and they finally got the car to stop, only to discover that it was the missing guard. Now if this guard had only called in that he was there, we wouldn’t have gone through all this. The other guard, instead of manning the post, was searching for the vehicle and trying to solve the mystery. And back at dispatch, we were this close to calling Metro to report the vehicle stolen. So that ate up the last few hours of the night.

Sunday I was determined to have the day off. I went to church, and then just really wanted to get home to nap. Since I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather this past week, I know that getting some rest is pretty important to my recovery. But nap was not to be. I checked my voice mail as soon as I left church, and of course there’s a message from work asking me to come in to do F’s payroll, since he’s been sicker than me and out of the office most of the week. Great. I have my payroll stuff under control, but his system I had no idea on. So into the office I go to figure it all out. The Big Kahuna was in and making a big deal about how he was missing the game because he had to be there, until I reminded him that we did have a tv in the office. So that got plugged in and added one more thing to my list of distractions. I just wanted to get through it all and get home to sleep. Of course, with F being sick and out of touch since he left his phone chargers at work, I was worried about how he was doing, so I turned on the IM while I was there, hoping he was still alive and would IM me. Of course, he did, so I ended up leaving the office to meet him for supper. I caught him up on the goings on, and we went back to the office so he could see what a mess he had and I could finish his payroll. Didn’t get home until just after midnight. Had to check my email, and of course F is online again, so we chatted for a while before we just had to call it a night.

Today, I was in on time and spent the day fighting the big sleep while trying to make sense of all the scheduling issues from the weekend so that I could make sure that people got paid properly. I think I’m going to try and take Wednesday off to sleep or something, but somehow I don’t see that being likely. Oh well. Maybe next weekend I can stay away from the office. At least I don’t feel like that place is sucking the life out of me anymore. A new director was hired and will be starting next week, I believe. I will be going back to dispatch a few nights per week, and as far as office duties go, I think I’ve carved out quite a nice little niche for myself there, so I think I might stick around for awhile.

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