Yes I am posting this at 5am on a Saturday! I've been taking a new medication for about a week now and one of the side effects is insomnia, LUCKY ME!! I've actually been awake since 3am after about 2 hours of sleep!
Part of the problem today is this meeting at work this morning at 7am. I'm very conflicted about it. While I think it may be needed it was really needed weeks ago. You see the meeting/"training" today is going to be about 5 hours long and is all about the 2009 benefits for our Medicare Advantage plan that I work on to get ready for Annual open enrollment. The thing is the enrollment period starts TODAY! We've had the new material for a couple of weeks and have been taking calls on it for that long as well! This meeting was supposed to be a month ago and at that time it was very needed! My other issue is that because of open enrollment we are required to be open 7 days a week from 8am to 8pm and being low man on the totem pole I will have to work a good majority of those Saturdays and Sundays, which I understand. However with the number of people who work with this product if everyone had volunteered to take a couple of weekends we all would have only had to work one weekend every 4 weeks or something like that. Instead the higher seniority said they would not and forced the 6 newest people and the new temps to take all the weekends between now and the end of MARCH! THANKS!
My other issue with today is that I had told my supervisor weeks ago that I could not work today because I had family in from out of state and she was fine with that. Then this meeting came up, last friday mind you, and while they said it was not manditory I felt like as a newbie I should be there to show I'm commited to my job. Even on Monday she reminded me this is not manditory and I had to open my mouth and say it's ok I'll just come and leave the meeting a little early. After much consideration, during my sleeplessness, I've decided I have to much to do today and if I'm going to be giving up most of my weekends for the next 4+ months, I'm not giving into not being able to work today! Even though I could use the 5 hours of OT!
Anyway, enough bitching about this, I've decided to take a stand for myself and have sent my supervisors a very nice email explaining that I can not attend the meeting!
PS I hope know one else ever has to deal with insomnia, it sucks and you just can't think straight!
2 comments:
Sorry for the lack of sleep. It's pure torture...Hope it comes easier for you tonight. Try not to sweat the work stuff. It sucks but could be much worse!
Hey - - you know, you did the right thing. I am the biggest guilty party for doing whatever work asks me to do... I mean, I have not taken a lunch in like 3 years. I work through lunch almost every single day. I want to just say, hey. I am entitled to take at least a half hour lunch, I am going to. But, I don't!!
As for the not sleeping - - it is so crazy to me how important sleep is, and how much we take good, "normal" sleep for granted until we do not get it!!! I totally sympathize with you. While I didn't have insomnia, per se, what I went through was terrible. Hopefully it gets better, and MAKE SURE YOU TELL YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THE SIDE EFFECT!! Even though it may be common, you have to make sure he knows!! :)
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