Saw five goodbye/retired emails from people I worked with. Sad.

I’ve been working the whole time but now that everyone is back all of the thins they didn’t get to work on have become emergencies. It is not going to be great for a few months at least. It would help if the administration doesn’t do even more crap to us. I am getting so, so tired.

Our passwords expire every 45 days so the majority of our office was locked out. I was on hold for over an hour and I have colleagues who were locked out for over 3 hours. The IT started implementing extraordinary measures and things improved.

No meetings for a couple days and I am trying to remember what I do. I figure it will be slow again tomorrow and then the typical frenzy will start Monday.

It was glorious. I'm not even being sarcastic here. I missed my work people and my job. IT had left us all a nice note to say here is how to get yourself back up and running OR come find us in person. HR held a meeting where they told us not to touch our timecards because THEY'RE going to hurry to update them all to process backpay ASAP. Front office got us cookies and coffee out of their own pockets and had a nice meeting where they said, go socialize with your coworkers and see you all tomorrow!

But I also work at a unicorn agency so lips sealed which one that is. 😂

Day went pretty smoothly. Nice to see everyone back. Not looking forward to being there on a Friday when it’s so dead but one day at a time.

Day was pretty slow. My workload depends on others doing their work first, so I think there will be a bit of a lag before I start seeing a lot of work.

My day was uneventful. Lots of meetings and catching up with emails. Our timekeeping system is down and we have been instructed not to bother IT with non-critical tickets, but otherwise it was smooth. It’s great to be back and see all my colleagues again.

I got my alert at 7:20am that I needed to report in by 8am. lol. I was already going to, but what a late automated notice!

Today was something special. I was prepared to be overwhelmed by work, but work really outdid itself. Swamped doesn't even begin to cover it. I have so much work, it will be impossible to do even 10% of it. Management wasn't very sympathetic. They also said I cannot hire because my DRP people are still getting paid until 12/31. I lost 3 and I think I need to hire 5 for this heavy, heavy workload.

Anonymous wrote:It's 1701 hours, OP. Were you watching the clock or something?

What century are you posting from?

I worked from home today, headed back into the office in the morning. Not only did the timekeeping system experience extreme delays, everyone on my team faced IT challenges in some form or another across the network/personal devices. Hopefully tomorrow will be more smooth, I'm the only one on my local team who's working. I plan to get through some more compliance training.

Anonymous wrote:It's 1701 hours, OP. Were you watching the clock or something?

Looks like you are.

Perhaps OP’s day begins before 8.

Anonymous wrote:It's 1701 hours, OP. Were you watching the clock or something?

Some of us start early and end early. Not everyone works until 5pm.

Anonymous wrote:It's 1701 hours, OP. Were you watching the clock or something?

What a strange response to OP's nice post.

It's 1701 hours, OP. Were you watching the clock or something?

I’ll start. My agency had instructed people to wait for an alert ordering them back to work. Apparently it was sent late last night after the president signed the order but there were technical difficulties so many people didn’t receive it. Hilarity ensued this morning.

Office was 80 degrees. The internet was down in half of the workstations- those people were sent home to situationally telework so they could accomplish something. And the timekeeping system kept crashing due to the entire organization trying to update time cards at the same time.

I’m so glad to be back at work, so glad to see my team again and so glad to still have a job (and I’m not being sarcastic) but today went exactly how I expected it to go. Looking forward to catching up and getting back to the mission.

Anyone else have as much fun?