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September 2016 Moms
chavezrd2
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Working Mom's Check In 7/18/16
chavezrd2
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Alright mommas! Are you all ready for a productive week?
Any major projects to finish this week?
How's replacement training coming?
Focus - high hopes or laying low?
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?
Any major projects to finish this week?
How's replacement training coming?
Focus - high hopes or laying low?
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?
Re: Working Mom's Check In 7/18/16
How's replacement training coming? Haven't formally started yet but I got the slides done for her to review before we begin. I'm eager to train but part of me doesn't want to let go! Ha, yet I tell DH I won't be heartbroken if baby comes early...
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Doubt it will be high but hopefully enough to count as productive and get a few to do's checked off the list. Fingers xx!
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Work - training backup; Home - get the darn crib setup and prepped. Oh and get the car seat put back together since we washed it.
yes! We have 4 restaurants at our corporate offices and we are doing a "table tour" this week where we will set up a booth and talk to employees about the big project I've been working on. Pretty excited that the first step is finally happening!
How's replacement training coming?
I'm still working on writing out instructions for my coworkers. It's kind of hard because I don't know where my projects will be when I leave. I won't be starting anything new between now and then, but I'm not sure if I'll be done with everything or what to tell them about what to do.
Focus - high hopes or laying low?
Laying low!!!!!!
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?
I would really like to get my big project done, but it really all
depends on the city.
How's replacement training coming? They've hired someone, and I think I know who it is but it hasn't been announced yet and therefore we haven't started any training yet. I'm not sure what the hold up is but the delay isn't helping anybody.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Beginning of the week I'm good, but come Wed/Thurs, I have zero focus. It doesn't help that it's just now hitting me that we only have about 60 days left and I still feel like there are a million things to do, my actual work not being one of them.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? I just need to get my current inventory down to zero. My teammates will be picking up the slack big time while I'm out so the less I leave for them to clean up, the better.
How's replacement training coming?: Good. I've been given the green-light to "shove him out of the nest" and start letting him take everything over. I've been helping out doing tasks I used to do before I took my position over last year, and I'm actually loving the change of pace.
Focus - high hopes or laying low?: I'm somewhere in the middle. Now that I've got something to shake things up a bit, I find myself a bit perkier. Also, my coworkers completely surprised me with a Game of Thrones-themed shower here at work on Friday, so I'm still kind of riding the warm fuzzy high from that!
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?: Just keep on truckin', keep on training, try not to fall asleep at my desk...
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
How's replacement training coming? There is no replacement, my cases are being covered by a co-worker and my supervisor. This is pushing me for resolutions, as I don't want to burden them.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Trying everything to stay focused.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Having all of my paperwork/files in order.
How's replacement training coming? No replacement, work will just get divided out
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Really laying low, I have been just trying to take on the little tasks. I really want to talk with them about only working on the stuff I know and small things because right now I have a completely new project on my plate that I just don't have the brain power to start.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Just have to keep chucking along.
BFP: 8/11/18 Due: 4/26/18
How's replacement training coming? I don't really have anything to transfer over to anyone. I'm just leaving notes in our application and my team will use those.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Laying low as per usual lately.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? I'm just trying to get through each day to get through each week.
Here's a collage of the pics I took.
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
Any major projects to finish this week?
Last week of real work for my 2 interns. Next week they will present their projects to the other marketing departments and it's imperative we show how hard they have worked, so this week is crunch time! Unfortunately I'm super sleepy and not in the mood to work hard.
How's replacement training coming?
Wondering when my boss is going to send out the job posting for my replacement. Since I'm outta here come Sep 1st, I may need to remind him this week about it.
Focus - high hopes or laying low?
Somewhere in the middle, not expecting an extremely focused week but looking to get plenty done.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?
How's replacement training coming? My supervisor will be taking over my position while I'm gone so thankfully there is no training to be given from me. However, I am still learning this position so I am sure there will be more for me to learn.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Laying low for sure! I will be out until the week before Christmas once baby comes and I have already considered the rest of this year a wash.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? We need to finish decorating the baby's room and putting all of her stuff together. I also need to wash her clothes and get them put away.
How's replacement training coming? Nada. A coworker who does a semi-similar job (another pharmacist) will be doing my work on top of his. He just keeps my program alive while I'm out - and did the same my last maternity leave. Basically need to write up a list of priorities for him
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Somewhere between I guess?
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? For work - clean my desk? hahaha, I really like leaving with a perfectly clean desk so I can return to one as well. I need to talk to coworker a bit about my program here in this state - the same program is supposed to be starting up in 3 or 4 other states as well, so you'd think I would be training a whole bunch of people right now but it's just not that organized. Ugh, not my fault!
How's replacement training coming? My replacement does not start until August 15, although I am attempting to prep for her now.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Trying to lie low until I go out - I have had some unexpected trials go forward the past few weeks, really hoping to avoid any more of those until I am back from leave. I need time to get things organized.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Get my cases in order and notes/ outlines made to pass to whoever will be shuffling them along when I am out.
@chavezrd2 @MrsVoorhees I am terrible about letting go or letting anyone else handle anything. My work would probably let me hand things off whenever I wanted, but I have this nagging feeling others will somehow miss something or not do a good job, which is probably totally baseless.
@runningisrad THAT IS AMAZING! Also I couldn't remember who else was naming their boy Jude for the life of me (your first name is slightly different IIRC - my boy will be a Julian, yours a Julius?). I am sure hoping Julian Castro isn't the VP pick this year, I just don't want to end up with an election year name on accident. Ha.
My team was very supportive, made jokes and overall agreed that I am losing my touch but thats ok! It was a relief to put it out there bc I hate not pulling my weight but I have less than 7 weeks left and I have done pretty damn well up until now.
BFP: 8/11/18 Due: 4/26/18
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
How's replacement training coming? I wont have a replacement but there are some tasks I will need to train one of my seniors to do. That's on my to do list.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Trying so hard to lay low... I'm having trouble finishing what I do have and the thought of taking on anything else just makes me want to cry. I hate feeling like this because I am usually so focused on work. I worked so hard to become a CPA and start my career... now I am just so ready for maternity leave!
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Making sure my due date list is complete (the next tax deadline is 9/15... which happens to be my due date!) I still have a handful of things that need to go out so I have to make sure they are either reassigned or finished before I leave!
Any major projects to finish this week? No sadly, but hopefully progress made.
How's replacement training coming? Bahahahaha - so awful. I do the same role as a person in a different location, and so this other person will cover for me while I am out. I supervise a large team, and so his coverage will be largely administrative. Even though my due date is early September, for 8 weeks he is planning to spend every other week with me in my location to "learn" my job - remember we do the exact same thing.
Today he told me he wants to spend time getting to know the members of my team on a personal level. And he hugged all the female team members.
I may lose my shit any day now, I don't think I can survive with him hanging around till I leave.
Focus - high hopes or laying low?
High hopes, I still have a lot to do before I leave, and I am hoping it makes the time pass quickly.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes?
A giant to-do list.
MrsVoorhees everyone, male and female, thinks he is insane.
At one point, he went in to hug a team member in front of me, and I said out loud "oh wow, we're hugging?" (word vomit). He turned to me and said "oh yes, I am a hugger." SO awkward and uncomfortable and not ok. We have so many sexual harassment trainings that discuss how harassment is in the eye of the beholder, I'm not sure how he missed them.
I specifically told him, I prefer not to be touched, and I have told other folks to tell him the same thing. Counting down the next 6-7 weeks...
How's replacement training coming? I don't have a replacement. The team will just divide the work, but with how things are going we may finish the project before I leave anyways.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? Mostly laying low. I am not picking up an new projects and just riding it out.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Wrapping up this project before baby comes. Seems doable.
How's replacement training coming? N/A - I've handed off / trained coworkers on a couple minor tasks to cover while I'm out but this big project has no plan set for what happens when I'm gone.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? I want to lay low. This project is stressing me out. OB asked me to cut back at work after my L&D visit last week but being away just makes it worse because I come back to more and more and can't keep up. I really wish I could just hand it off to someone and then "support" them until I'm gone.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Honestly? Just save face until I'm out. Keep up with this project just enough to make it look like I have my sh*t together but not so much that it continues to stress me out. I want baby to stay in until at least 37 weeks. That's my biggest job right now.
@nativetexan512 Your replacement sounds...interesting... How is someone like him even in a supervisory role!?
How's replacement training coming?N/A - I don't have someone coming to replace me. The way my job works is that there are plants all over the US and Canada and we can generally work on any job from anywhere. So coworkers from my old office in Canada will be handling my art responsibilities when I'm off. I'm happy I don't need to train someone new, but I know the replacements make a lot of mistakes so I'm concerned how everything will turn out in my absence.
Focus - high hopes or laying low? I honestly don't have much of a choice so I'm busting my butt until I leave. I have yet to take a sick day, but I did ask about the possibility of working from home as my due date comes up if it gets tough for me. My supervisor approved it so that's a relief and a weight off so I don't have to use my leave early.
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? Nothing specific - every day is a little different for me. I will likely have another 60 jobs to complete by then, maybe more. I also have my performance review coming around the same time so I need to finalize that by entering data and such into my form for evaluation. Will need to make a plan for my leave - my work doesn't let me get a plan going until 30 days before my due date. So I have that to work on soon enough...
How's replacement training coming? doesn't exist
Focus - high hopes or laying low? high hopes? No option but to keep pushing it as hard as I can. Absolutely not an option to lay low
Main thing to accomplish before baby comes? More closings
Even miracles take a little time - Cinderella
Funny side note- I got a birthday card from the director of my division in the company and in my card it read "happy you're on the team...and so glad you're only off briefly...even if that's insane" he's Canadian so he doesn't understand the maternity leave in the USA. Nor I buddy! But it's nice to feel appreciated and know that my presence will be missed when I'm off.