Argh

[murakozi]

The past few weeks at work have been stressy as heck as things have been building up for some stuff next week.  Now that things are coming down to the wire, it's getting even worse.

For starters, I get a call this morning from our VP down in the KY office.  The guy who is kinda running the show for next week's stuff arrived at the site this morning and the folks at the gate said they'd not received any notice that he and the rest of the team were coming, nor had they gotten any clearance information.  That's a bad thing, especially since I'd just talked yesterday with the person here responsible for sending that just yesterday.  Some frantic calling and we determined that it was sent, just that the person on the other end hadn't bothered distributing it.

It just demonstrates how a single point of failure can screw things up.  The process is fairly straightforward, even if it does involve a few players.  Basically:

Person A:  needs to go to (location) on these dates for the contract stuff we're doing there on those dates
Person A:  gets the info from D, the contact person at the site, as to where to send the information
Person A:  goes to B, who is the corporate person in charge of getting that stuff sent and gives B the information,
Person B:  sends the information, clearances, etc to C, the person in charge of receiving them for location
Person C:  informs D that he's received info from A.  Likely D has told C that the info is coming.  if not, D makes sure it's a legitimate visit request.
Person C:  informs people at the gate that A is authorized to enter the area on the indicated dates

On the day(s) of the work, A arrives at the gate, shows ID 'n such, the folks there see A is authorized and in A goes.

Problem is that, in this case, C is kinda odd.  First off, he never answers his phone.  Not even when people where he works call.  That can make things challenging, especially when C never bothers to actually tell anyone that the info from/about A was received, meaning that the guys at the front gate have nothing saying it's okay for A to enter.

So, this morning, some people on the team sat around forever while I and B tried to figure out what the heck was goign on.



Now on top of all this, I was originally supposed to be up onsite Mon/Tue and Thu/Fri next week.  No biggie.  But then someone decided that, hey, why not have me shuttle some stuff back and forth, which meant being there Mon-Fri.  Then they started saying I should be there Sun-Fri, or maybe Sun-Sat.  Now it's "well hey, might need you to be up there tomorrow.."

Yeah, like I'm supposed to be happy about a last minute week-and-a-half trip?  Heck, I can't even make hotel reservations to since nobody can acutally say what days I should be up there.  The alternative, of course, is driving 90 minutes from home to the site every morning, another 90 minutes every evening up to another of our offices, then 3 hours or so home after that.  Yeesh.

Yeah, I'm not a happy camper right now.