Preventative Shutdown

Work this week has been absolutely manic. There are ugly problems springing up everyway with the test system. I've got about 3 Severity 1 issues to deal with at the one time. From going from the pottering along to giving everything I've got has happened in the blink of an eye.

In the end I think I overcooked things a bit this week. I spent all of Wednesday puttimg a lot of effort into trying to understand a problem and came up with nothing. To make matters worse at the close of play on Wednesday I had 2 Project Managers, 1 Programme Manager and an Engineering manager parked at my desk, trying to work out what we are going to do next. I had a meeting at 9 the following morning and I didn't have any answers to give.

Things weren't helped when I was sent on a wild goose chase by a certain large car parts retailer, that said they had found the piece for my trailer I needed, only to drive to the store that said they had it, to find out they didn't!!! To really cap it off I had a really bad night's sleep on Wednesday.

Went to work Thursday had some breakfast and powered on my laptop. Opened up e-mail and then couldn't bring myself to opening any mail for fear of what it might bring. Started feeling really agitated and walking up and down the corrider for no reason. These are some serious red flags and I decided I wasn't even going to try and battle on. I was going to stop and right there and then. I grabbed one of the bosses and explained the situation to him and left for home.

I was perfectly fine the following day and went to work as normal and it was if nothing had every happened. I did have to have a serious chat with my direct boss about my absence - his problem is knowing whether he can give me anything to taxing out not. I think we came to the conclusion it was one of those things.

Taking the good points from this little episode. I recognised the problem about to happen and did something about it which probably helped keep it to a short "bounce"