People who draw up staff rosters, bless `em, must rank next to traffic wardens, estate agents, bankers and scruples-less journalists in the least-liked list. It's a difficult job – factoring in people's leave, training, days' off and covering bank holidays fairly. So you have to be as obliging as possible to the roster king or queen in order to get a good deal. But when they make a mistake, it plays havoc with the lives of those staff. A whole two days were turned upside down in my case. I wouldn't mind if it was a one-off but this is the third time there's been an error in as many months.
To explain: I was expecting to be working on Thursday during the day but it turned out I was working overnight. No big deal, you might think. And, fortunately, I found this out before I'd bought my return train ticket – something I was just about to do in an extremely rare moment of over-organisation. But I HAD already humiliated myself by grovelling for some extra childcare as a one-off at after school club; I HAD agreed to give a friend a lift to a fitness class on Friday morning and, most importantly, I HAD just adjusted an important meeting for some voluntary work that I'm doing. Something I didn't feel I could adjust once I'd discovered, through phoning to double-check, that I was on a night shift. So struggling through the day yesterday, after very few zzzzzs, was not that pleasant for me or those around me.
Normal service should be resumed soon.......
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