What I have to do to earn a vacation day around here

I had a near-death experience today. Or, at least, I felt like it.

I finally got some help around these parts. And I was on the phone training this person. And I was stressing, over and over again, to the point of being annoying, to check and double-check and triple-check and please don’t ever think that you can check too often.

I even said it out loud, if there’s even a 1% chance that you could send the right file to the wrong list, triple-check yourself before you hit the “send” button.

And genius here? Sent the right file to the wrong list.

The second I hit the “send” button, I had that horrible gut-wrenching, “I’ve got to go poop all over my worst enemy’s desk” feeling.

Did I say that? Ahem.

Anyway, there are two cancel buttons, and I hit them immediately. Now, I’ve already been told that you can ONLY hit them within 60 seconds and, even then, there’s about a 50/50 chance your mailing will be halted.

Well God willing and the creek don’t rise, but I waited 10 minutes and never got a live broadcast. Success!

I’m all hell-bent on training this poor character because it is all that stands between me getting a vacation day or me coming in with a potato gun and shooting yams at everyone I see. Even though I could hand some of my work over to, oh, people more-qualified than me to do it, I’ve been told no way, no how. Either my person is trained or no vacation for Goddess.

Problem is, I don’t know how to show him nine months’ worth of hard knocks and overcomplicated processes (this is one of about four major ones) before my 21 weekdays of vacation expires. But I am totally willing to die trying.

Anyway, just had to stress-blog. I try not to do that here but today? I earned it.

Of course I went straight into three more things to be published (read: interpreted, re-written, the math completely overhauled and basically breaking the nose to rebuild it) and I have four more waiting. So don’t rule out a yam fit just yet. But it’s a little further away than it was a couple of hours ago.

At least I think I conveyed the point of “How to react with grace.” I hope!

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