It's Friday!

Happy Friday! What year is it? Well, according to me for the last three days, it's still 2023. I can apparently WRITE 2024, but I cannot TYPE 2024. Yeah. Me today, having to go back and change the date on my Excel routing log for 112 cases. 😅

Happy FRIDAY!

It's FRIDAY and I have a three day weekend ahead! 😀 We only had a three day work week this week, but it kicked my butt!! Dealing with clients coming into the office and some even refusing to leave. Others trying to take our posters down and wall plaques saying they want a copy. Anxiety over routing and because some just can't get their crap together!! Ugh! I honestly didn't log off my laptop until almost 6pm because I had a course that I had to take by Dec 31st. I was going to take the time to complete it but was called to the conference room to notarize and sign documents. Yep. Weekend ready here!

 

Remote all week

The best thing about my job is that I can work from home, even when I am not feeling well. And this week has been one of those weeks. Not only was it my routing week, but I have found downright just blah. 😵

Unless you are completely sick and needing to stay in bed, calling in sick to work is lame. I will always have sick days because I never call in to work and I rarely take days off. I will here and there because I think everyone needs a little time to take a breather. But sick days are over since you can work remote these days.

The family started off the month getting sick. LOL. First my daughter, followed by my son, and then me. It finally hit my husband and I think he got the worst of it. He ended up having to schedule an appointment since he needed BP refills and he was seeing a new doctor. They of course, ended up testing him for Covid and Flu. He tested negative for both which is a good thing. So, we basically all have the common cold. No fevers or any other symptoms that would deem it anything else. We are just chilling this weekend.

Happy Friday!

It's been rough...

 

Oh my gosh, what a week! I haven't been doing a whole on my PC since it's been a bit hard to type one-handed. My gaming has been very limited since using the keys, W,A,S,D works my forearm muscles, just like typing does. LOL.

This week was our newest Tarrant county router's first week and let me tell you, my head hurt all week just watching. The case reviews are a complete mess and look nothing like the ones that I usually email to the workers. I am sure how she is copying and pasting, or what browser she is using, but everything is left-aligned and difficult to read. Some cases sat on the workload for almost an hour before being routed out and she was everywhere in the assignment log. I couldn't tell who was up next in rotation and some workers had up to three P1s when others didn't even have one for the week. My unit was slammed with P1s today, which prompted a call to me from one of the acting supervisors for my unit. 😐 One of my workers had called her in tears and she was absolutely dumbfounded as to the high number of cases for my workers when their caseloads are usually under 20. I have one worker over 30. Needless to say, this supervisor said she was going to call our PA and see if they can get a mental picture as to what is going on. And let's not even talk about communication. Oh my word! When we get requests for transfer cases or courtesy visits, all the routers are notified. Well, I happened to be the only one that got the email on a transfer case, so I added both of the other routers to it and mentioned I was not routing this week but another router. She never responded to any of the email that was sent back and forth about this transfer case that had accidentally been changed from the primary worker. I tried to call her, no answer. I even emailed her, no answer. The emails continued between the supervisors for almost 40 minutes, and I finally jumped in and made the correction myself, and then sent out an email saying the corrections had been made. Communication!!! And right now, me and this new router do NOT have any, and this is going to pose a major problem since it's only going to be me and her routing for the time being. Ugh!  😖 I wanted to pull my hair out! I feel for my supervisor. She literally took these weeks off to do a reset and she is walking back into absolute chaos.

And of course, today was Michelle's last day. She sent out a good-bye email and I sent her a reply back telling her that it was a pleasure working with her and thanking her for all the knowledge and training she provided me. I really am going to miss her. Michelle sent me a private email giving me her personal number, so I must have at least made some type of impact on her. LOL! Not sure who is going to be my back-up admin now. 

What a week!!! 😜

It's Friday!

It's Friday and I have a three day weekend! This week flew by and not without a couple surprises, the first being that we have lost another admin. Yep, last week I found out that Erica's last day is May 31st. She was one of the CPS admins that I worked the front desk with. This Wednesday I opened a 'Thank You email from Jasmin, who was one of our PA Admins, telling all of us that is was a pleasure working with us this past year and that it was her official last day. Wow. 😦 Well, that opens up the Admin III position again. One that I will not find myself applying for, even if it does mean a raise in pay. The job also entails traveling to all staff meetings across the region, and is a good 40+ minute drive from where I live.

Nope. The pay raise would not justify what we would be spending in gas. I say we because my husband takes me to work and picks me up, plus we get to meet for lunch. We only have one vehicle at this time, so I will have to pass on this one. Plus, I enjoy only being 10 minutes tops from my current office location. 

Second surprise - I heard from my girl Kinna!!! I had heard my personal phone ping but got sidetracked. When I was opening up my app to put on some music, I saw a text message. Now, she didn't give me her personal number so I had no idea who it was until I opened it up and saw the pics!! She had sent me a few pics of her in Greece and Italy. She sent me a few videos as well, and one when they were on a tour bus passing the Colosseum! Pure awesomeness!

She said her and her husband had an amazing time, both on the ship and touring. She said the history is just phenomenal. Yep, I am a bit envious. LOL! She had only been at her new job a week before she was headed on vacation that had already been booked for over a year. I was so happy to hear from her and it made my afternoon texting back and forth.

Pet City release this week was Ancient Greece. How funny!!!

 

I'm going to enjoy my three day weekend and hoping the weather holds out for Monday - Memorial Day - since we are headed to Six Flags!
 

Friday is here!

 

 

I love my job but I am happy to see this day at the end of the week. Monday started off a bit rough. I had just gotten into routing and my work laptop decided it wanted to malfunction, freezing up multiple times, causing the BSOD. Calling on my team to take over routing for, me and after calls to IT, I was on my way to the regional office to swap out my computer. It literally took all day. Unfortunately I did lose some documents, etc. because they were not saved to my One Drive. I also lost all of my bookmarks. LOL. It will be a process to get back what I had, but it happens.

 

I found out yesterday that my girl Kinna was accepted for an Admin IV position with the Texas Comptroller's Office, so she will be leaving DFPS. While I am happy for her, I will miss working with her. She was so sweet. Now, it's up to me and Michelle to keep routing above water since it will only be the two of us until our new admin is fully trained, but we will still be down an admin. We should have four. May is going to be hectic!!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday All! Saturday is actually in just a few minutes and I haven't been on most of the week. It has been a slow week, but one of those weeks regardless. I routed cases this week and the amount of service authorizations I have processed is going to make me have to add extra rows to my PCS Report this month. Wow. Just wow.

The weekend is here and I have cleaning to do! Yay! 😂 We put together a new baker's rack/microwave cart for the kitchen. I will be moving it up there this weekend.