This week has been full of one thing.. work... In 4 days I've done 41.5 hours. Yesterday was bad, really bad. =( I spent the day (another one) out at the printing contractors. Only it was completely different. We were meant to be out there only till 1 or 2pm, by which time they promised that they would have everything printed and ready. Ended up leaving there at 11pm. Delays, file problems and everything else that went wrong were to blame apparently. I had my backpack couriered out to me from work as it had my keys and other stuff that I needed. Finished up with 14.5 hours paid work but my boss wants to pay us extra overtime to make up for it.

Then today, I thought I would get there on time at 8:30, do a bit of work and finish up some things that I had left yesterday and get out of the office at around 3:30 or 4pm. Ended up leaving at 5:30pm as usual and adding more things to the backlog than I took off. The DE&T union had a stopwork rally thing at 10am so the main systems guy in our unit went, along with our A/P from IT. Then it was "decided" at the rally that they would take the rest of the day off work. Great, just when we find several large problems with the data, they decide to take the day off... *sigh* I'm actually quite proud of myself as I *shock horror* had to apply knowledge learnt from my undergrad degree to extract stuff out of the database. Writing SQL isn't hard, just understanding the database schema that spread over 3 A3 pages. I ended up asking for some help from another IT person to do the first one. The second ad-hoc query from my boss was completely my doing =) I just hope that it's right! =P