My workload fluctuates according to predictable monthly cycles. At the beginning of the month, I’m hella-busy for about 6-8 days. Then I’ll have about a week where, literally, days could go by without a single thing crossing my desk. Then, some time in the middle of the month, I’ll have aa week where I’m extremely busy for two days, then I’m off the hook again until the last week of the month, where I’m hella-busy again for about two days. In any given month I’m hella-busy for about 10 work days; somewhat busy for about 3, and not busy at all for the remaining 10-11.
I’m about to start Day 4 of the beginning of the month hella-busy 6-8 days.
Usually it’s feast or famine. Either I’m up to my eyeballs in work, or absolutely nothing to do. Fridays, as a rule, are completely dead. I wish I could only work 4 days of the week…
Bah, we have now entered mandatory overtime season in medical transcription, at least at my company. All winter it was slips-on-ice or ear infections, and now we’re heading into swimmer’s ear, poison ivy, and elective surgeries.
I’ve been working overtime on my project since January. I’m almost done, and it has slowed down a bit. When I start a new project the pace is usually slower, because the deadline is much farther down the road. (Engineering.)
It fluctuates according to the day. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are just insane. I have to hit the ground running as soon as I get in (1:00 pm), and there might be a slow spot around 4:00 when we can grab a bite to eat, but then around 5:00 or so it picks up again, and just doesn’t stop. My main days for overtime are M-W-F.
Tuesdays and Thursdays can either be completely dead or just busy enough to keep from being bored.
For the past year or so, I’ve been super-busy. I’ve had a ton of little side jobs I have to do every day, much more so than the others who do what I do. Every day was like a race for me to finish all of my jobs, and it was very stressful. Now that our new people have been mostly trained, though, most of my side jobs are being handed to them, and it’s getting soooo much better.
I swear at my next job I’m going to act so stupid, they’ll be praising me just for making it to work, and they won’t dare even consider assigning me lots of things just because I’m smart and they know I’ll get it done. I swear!
It’s getting on toward the end of the year and we put in a new financial system for this year. Which people are only figuring out how to use correctly. Ten months’ of corrections? What the hell am I doing on a message board? Much better than last year, where my thumbs got buff from the twiddling.
I’m a bookkeeper/HR/fleet manager/jack of all trades for an HVAC company and we’re still slow right now, but I always have something going on. Today, I’ve got to do the bank reconciliation and close the month.
Then I have to set up an OSHA meeting, a health insurance meeting and an AFLAC meeting for the employees this week.
All that PLUS managing to get my SDMB time in. It’s exhausting, I tell ya!
My husband is in medical claims processing and they’ve got mandatory OT for the foreseeable future. 10 hours per week minimum. We’re actually happy about it right now, since we need a new roof.
I’m a lab monkey. I do the same thing every single day, with new specimens. Depending on volume, I’m always pretty busy, and if I’m not, there’s maintenance and cleaning to do. It’s nice not being bored at work (I hate clock-watching), but at the end of the week, I’m dead.
We sell gift wrap, so we are pretty dead except during fourth quarter. During fourth quarter, I work 44 hours per week. The most hours I can get is 44 – during fourth quarter, we are open for 4 hours on Saturdays, and I am pretty much guarunteed to work every Saturday if I want (and I usually do want) since I am the main chat person.
I work for a major retail chain, and the recession is kicking my butt (I’m in the market for a second part time job). This week’s schedule is 6 hours on Friday, where normally at this time of year I would have about 30 or more hours for the week.
I work in a new car dealership and unfortunatley I’m not as busy as I’d like to be given the current state of the ecomony. I don’t sell cars but instead parts so I stay fairly busy throughout the day whether we’re selling new cars or not. But this slow down isn’t just limited to car sales, as people seem to be hanging on to their money. I know I am. Once the temperature gets on the high side, and as it’s Vegas it won’t be long before I’ll be swamped and that’s the way I like it. Of course the down side is I don’t get to mess around here as much as I’d like.
My regular work includes a biweekly publication, two monthly publications, one semiannual publication and daily Web features. In the last year I’ve also written two books, edited a dictionary, and helped to revise a treatise. Working through lunch has become the norm rather than the exception.
I’m a hospital insurance biller and I have about 800 - 1000 claims I have to oversee at any given time. I also have other duties related to claims, so I’m busy all day long.
The 15 days on are hellish. I start around 4 or 5am and work until 9 or 10 pm. Pretty much each and every one of those 15 days. If i get 6 hours sleep, I’m lucky. And with the kind of work I do I have to be “on the ball” the entire time. There is no zoning out.
I just started a new job and I’m insanely busy. I took this job and moved out of my old job, which was also a new job where I was insanely busy. I’ve just hired a new assistant. I need to train my new assistant, train my old assistant, and train the woman that is taking over my old job. On top of actually doing my job. I’m lucky I get my overtime paid out is all I have to say.
Much better than last year, where my thumbs got buff from the twiddling.