The last few months when I get home from work at the end of a day, I feel like it has been ages since I was home. It feels so wonderful to walk in the door, but I can’t remember what it felt like the last time I was there or when it was, even though I realize it was just that morning.
I guess I get so engrossed in getting through the day (school, home visits, meetings, paperwork, etc.) that by the time I’m home it’s like I’m getting back from the other side of the world.
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I can see you.
Sitting there in that seat.
Looking at this screen.
And I know you’re wondering…
How much does Eva work per week?
Well, young lady, I am here to solve that mystery. This is a list of the hours I have spent for each of the past ten weeks. My company considers certain activities “productive,” so you have to add 10-15 of each number below to figure how much I actually work per week.
| 60.00 |
| 68.75 |
| 57.50 |
| 59.75 |
| 56.25 |
| 59.00 |
| 49.00 |
| 64.00 |
| 51.00 |
| 50.00 |
I am hoping that there are going to be some shorter days in my future.
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I’ve been assigned 175% of a full-time job for the last four to five months or so (especially that last 2.5 months).
Yesterday I had my annual performance appraisal.
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Well, frankly, sometimes I just want it to be easier.
This summer I worked really hard and long hours, and things went really well.
Now, I’m working really hard, really long hours, and things are not going well.
And it doesn’t help at all that I am so tired. I hate getting You-Forgot-Such-And-Such-emails. I wish I could just respond, “No, I did not forget it. I just can’t do everything.”
Thank goodness for the 26 succulent, wonderful hours at home in Ohio with Such A One. It was really, really great to be at home in the peaceful serenity of my childhood home with my parents and Such A One. While we were there, I kept commenting to Such A One how quiet it was.
That’s the upside, so I’ll end on that.
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The e-mail quoted below got sent today to my site director and I from our Regional Vice President. It is in regard to a spreadsheet I had created for our site’s TDT program…
“…that spreadsheet is excellent and would certainly suffice for the [weekly] report. In fact, I forwarded this sheet to [another site director] last week, as I liked how you… visually tracked the TDT program.”
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We had our annual Christmas party today from 11:30am to 2:00pm.
My Regional Director was there.
Our Director of Clinical Services was there.
Our President and Chief Executive Officer was there.
What did I do?
I schmoozed the higher-ups. I don’t know what came over me, but I TALKED with them. Like, engagingly.
It started that I was standing there talking with our Director of Clinical Services about the Medicaid changes that happened this year and what we’ve done to adapt, the challenges, how hard my staff work, etc.
Then my Site Director, Regional Director, and CEO walked over (everyone else had left) nearby. I continued in the conversation I was having, but had a ear toward them. They were talking about me. In a good way.
When the time was right, both the Director of Clinical Services and I turned toward the other three. Then the CEO starts telling me how our TDT program is the only one in the state that has survived VICAP (if you want details about what that is, feel free to ask, but suffice it to say that it was the major Medicaid change of 2011) and how he stills tells people about I was the reason they changed the Supervisory Productivity Report for the whole company. Then he and my Regional Director asked to look at what I’d prepared for my staff that day and both made complimentary statements about it.
Seriously, I don’t know why I wasn’t nervous. I think it’s because we were talking about that which is now my expertise (TDT!) and *that* wakes me up. I know what I talking about when that is the subject. It gets me fired up. I can hold my own with just about anyone in that arena.
So I wasn’t nervous. I spoke clearly, if a bited excitedly. I made and maintained direct (but not creepy) eye contact. And when we all left, I gave those higher-ups the firmest hand shake they’ve ever gotten from a 5’9″ girl in pink. (I was wearing a pink sweater; not necessarily what I would have wore had I known they were coming, but hey, it’s hard to be perfect all the time.)
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So, this week my site director nominated me for Supervisor of the Month (for August). He CCed me on the report (that was two pages long, laying out all the reasons why I was nominated) that was sent to our Regional Director. The concluding statement was this:
“All this is accomplished with an optimistic and positive outlook accompanied by a pleasant, professional and cheerful demeanor.”
Today I was at a training all day in Richmond and during lunch the CEO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER!) came over to me and said, “Eva, you know you are the whole reason we re-did the Supervisor Productivity Report, right?”
As I sat there dumbfounded, the following thoughts passed through my head…
a) uuuhhh, the CEO knows my name.
b) uuuhhh, the CEO just came over to talk to me.
c) uuuhhh, I didn’t know that [what he just said].
d) uuuhhh, I think the CEO just complimented me.
What I managed to get out of my mouth was this, “Uh, I didn’t know that. How’s that?”
He explained that “all summer” he looked at the reports with me supervising 8 and 9 employees (less than usually b/c 2 of my employees took the summer off) and thought it was unfair that no one else had even close to that. So, he decided to (with his peeps) totally revamp how Supervisor Productivity is measured.
He was at the training because he was presenting on this new/re-vamped report.
When he did his training, he conveyed to all the other supervisors at the training. Used my name and everything.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
OKAY.
It’s great thought, because I feel like I’m behind on everything. But that’s because I have EVERYTHING to do right now. We have been discussing in Management how to adjust our supervision structured so I am not spread so thin. It’s good because hopefully, I’ll be responsible for less things. But it’s not so good, because this program is my BABY; I’m not totally sure I want to give any of it up. I really need to though (I am quickly approaching 12 supervisees, plus I’m doing all the assessments, plus I’m FILLING IN for sick employees an average of two days a week – yuck!), so it will be fine. 
I like my job.
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I’m only technically working two (2) days this week. However, I will be logging 28.5 hours…
yeah…………
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By 4:30pm today, I will have already worked 40 hours this week.
(It’s only Wednesday.)
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