Apropos 28-and-a-PhD posting at the Scientopia guest blog I offer this...my day today.
0800 - Arrive in the office, immediate pow-pow with Business Manager about staffing issues that must be dealt with today if we are to get a new hire in place by the end of next month.
0830 - Grab a coffee and a shifty smoke. Go for a pee. Check email (25 in inbox)
0900 - Meet with Clinical Trial PI and coordinator (and student) to review database. Discover my staff didn't run a final test yesterday and there are still bugs. Fast-talk like a level 15 thief to keep our noses out of the shit.
1015 - Meet with visiting life science rep from a databasing company to discuss our work and future expansion plans.
1025 - Scientific Director hijacks meeting
1135 - Finally force meeting to close before I pee myself. Run to bathroom whimpering.
1140 - Very unshifty smoke
1143 - Impromptu phone call from collaborator at local institute updating me on developments in our area and inviting me to join the Board of a new research initiative whilst trying to wrangle promises of support for a proposal I haven't read yet
1235 - Phone battery dies. Shifty smoke. Grab lunch.
1300 - Panicky student intern interrupts lunch with request for information on his recent work performance. Break his heart.
1315 - Angry consultant interrupts lunch demanding to know why he hasn't been paid yet
1330 - Meeting with possible project collaborator for development of a campus-wide training tool
1500 - sprint to bathroom, shifty smoke
1515 - Discover why consultant hasn't been paid
1530 - Meet consultant for a shifty smoke and break his heart. Promise to try and fix.
1545 - Meet with payroll staff to discuss how to get consultant paid, and watch incompetence reach literally jaw-dropping proportions.
1600 - sneak out of room as world war three begins due to aforementioned incompetence
1615 - Follow up with my business manager regarding our 0800 meeting and submit final job description to HR
1630 - Meet with my staff to discuss the morning's clusterfuck and arrange another meeting for 0900 tomorrow because there's no point in talking about it today.
1635 - Arrange two more meetings for tomorrow and watch my calendar now fill up completely
1700 - start writing this blog post
1705 - Associate Director joins me for an impromptu chat about a personnel issue
1735 - Finish this blogpost and try and sneak out before email arrives
1737 - minutes from today's meeting arrive with SOW errors...
1738 - Scream, post to blog, shut down laptop and storm out, ready for tomorrow.
The Felsh of Felix
4 days ago
1 comment:
I'm jealous of people who can schedule their day out like this. Is this something you still do? Whenever I try to time my day into tasks I always fall behind and the whole schedule gets out of wack. I'm a professional pressure washer though so ever since I became a foreman for https://www.pressurewashpro.ca/ my scheduling has been forced to improve. Anyway it sounds like this was a great day and I hope you have many more to come!
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