Saturday, December 8, 2012

What will Monday bring?

As I have stated in previous posts, my work group is in trouble.  The Program Managers (PM) are not cooperating - they are not opening charge numbers for us to use.   My supervisor had uis change to use ALL available numbers - 2.5 hours each only.

I had predicted we would run out.   I have only enough charge numbers for next week.  I have alerted my supervisor.   I suspect he will just put it back on me:  "A competent engineer would find charge numbers to use",  He said that before when it took months to get a new laptop.   It's jusdt an insulting way to say he is not going to escalate it.

Maybe I should ask if I can recycle back through old charge numbers.   If I had enough chaqrge4 numbers to get me through to 2013, then I could definitely re-use old chaqrge numbers, because the
2012 data isw not convenient to access.  The PMs would not know I had laready charged 2.5 hours to these numbers.

Only 3 members of our group are authorized to use Expense.   That leaves 8 of us, that are probably finding themselves in the same situation as me.

I wasn't pasying close enough attention to this because I have been working so hard.   The time reporting tool only allows me to see 50 charge numbers at a time.   When I deleted the charge numbers I used in November from my "available pool", then I was able to see the end coming.

So what will Monday bring? Will my paychecks just stop in a few weeks (meaning I have to take time off without pay)?  

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Addendum - I got enough charge numbers to get me through December.  In 2012, it is my plan to reuse charge numbers.  the fact that I run out of charge numbers at year end correlates with the Post titled "Yikes".

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