These past weeks have been crazy. No, no details. I finally get to take part in a nice project – and it’s only a 30% job. Bah. I notice, however, that I am in serious need of vacation. This may sound dumb or something, but I feel very, very burnt-out. Doesn’t help that for the past 1.5 years I bought virtually nothing geeky with my hard-earned cash.
HR discovered there was a bug with my time track profile. In short, I didn’t have any of the normal limits set. I am not sure how many hours my boss will have to get me back after they’re done with it. For November alone it should be 7.5 hours. Right now I have 3 over the limit of 40. That means: December 2003 is the first month I got over 50 hours of accumulated overtime. I try to keep my overtime in check. Really, I try. But it’s simply impossible.
Got home past 9pm on two days; took pretty much no lunch break all week (yeah, yeah, I know, I know, that’s illegal. If anybody asks: I am spending my lunch break on my way home). Had two days of serious arguments with my boss and coworkers this week. This adds a lot to the burnout. I hate it. I guess in the end neither they nor I were completely right. As I said, I need a break.