Day 251, hell's toothpicks, let me get on

Oh my, oh my.

IT is great isn't it, it's all to do with computers.

No IT isn't as can be ascertained by the one hundred and fifty minutes, that's two and a half hours, I spent searching through emails this morning, piecing together evidence from reports, asking colleagues to check payment systems, and trying to match up some random cocking bits of information to try to discover what on earth the problem was and who needed to sort it out.

Frustrating.

Doubly frustrating as there are time-intensive, hard deadline projects that need to be completed before the start of the next academic year.

"It's the summer, you must like this quiet time of the year."

Arrgggggggggghhhh.

Some parts of the job change but in no way is it quiet, and during the sort of refresh and migration cycle we are in the middle of right now it is perhaps the busiest time of the entire year, and the busiest one of those we've had for three years.

And the paperwork admin job above isn't an isolated incident, there are two or three of these sort of time-soaks a week, ignoring all of the other time soaks that interrupt the substantial piece of work that will not wait and absolutely has to be done.  A piece of work that has an impact on every member of staff and every student.  The best part of two days this week will go on admin tasks that appeared from elsewhere and that have to be squeezed into the schedule.

*BOOM*

And relax.

And a rough translation of the above latin phrase is - a long arse looks shorter when seated.

Apparently.*








*No it doesn't

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