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There is no right answer to this
Aug. 3rd, 2012 09:49 pmQuiz time! This Wednesday afternoon was:
a. The busiest time of the day (noon to stock market close at 4.00 PM)
b. The busiest day of the week (everyone is getting their proofs in to be set up to go out on Thursday, which is the end of the week as far as financial news is concerned)
c. The busiest day of the month (1st of the month, when all the car companies and retail stores send in their monthly sales report tables)
d. The busiest day of the quarter (3rd week of earnings, 40-50 releases full of big ugly financial tables moving through along with our regular massive load of copy)
e. THE DAY OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM IRREVOCABLY CRASHED FOR TWO HOURS.
So, yeah, that was kind of the shitty capstone on a horrendously long week. It was awful - we couldn't send anything out, couldn't work on releases, couldn't open orders or see incoming orders, nothing to do but sit there and panic about the deadlines we were missing. And then the rest of the day (and most of Thursday too) the whole office was just in a tailspin trying to recover. Needless to say, by the end of my shift tonight I was about ready to crawl under a rock and die. Sometimes I really wonder about this field that I have somehow fallen into.
(But I had a very nice birthday, my dad made me dinner and got me a basket for my bike, and the awesome people I RPG with made me cake and gave me a lovely dice set. And this weekend I am going mattress shopping with my mom, because I am finally about to graduate to a big girl bed, i.e. moving past the twin-size daybed I've had since I was twelve. So it's not all doom and gloom! Just, fuck, this month at work needs to be over already)
a. The busiest time of the day (noon to stock market close at 4.00 PM)
b. The busiest day of the week (everyone is getting their proofs in to be set up to go out on Thursday, which is the end of the week as far as financial news is concerned)
c. The busiest day of the month (1st of the month, when all the car companies and retail stores send in their monthly sales report tables)
d. The busiest day of the quarter (3rd week of earnings, 40-50 releases full of big ugly financial tables moving through along with our regular massive load of copy)
e. THE DAY OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM IRREVOCABLY CRASHED FOR TWO HOURS.
So, yeah, that was kind of the shitty capstone on a horrendously long week. It was awful - we couldn't send anything out, couldn't work on releases, couldn't open orders or see incoming orders, nothing to do but sit there and panic about the deadlines we were missing. And then the rest of the day (and most of Thursday too) the whole office was just in a tailspin trying to recover. Needless to say, by the end of my shift tonight I was about ready to crawl under a rock and die. Sometimes I really wonder about this field that I have somehow fallen into.
(But I had a very nice birthday, my dad made me dinner and got me a basket for my bike, and the awesome people I RPG with made me cake and gave me a lovely dice set. And this weekend I am going mattress shopping with my mom, because I am finally about to graduate to a big girl bed, i.e. moving past the twin-size daybed I've had since I was twelve. So it's not all doom and gloom! Just, fuck, this month at work needs to be over already)