Title says it all.

Manager and supervisor keep telling me I'm disorganized. Maybe I am, a bit, but I'm also overwhelmed by too much work. This time last year, we had 4 full-time people in my department doing imports. Now we have just two - me and supervisor. We have one girl out on maternity leave until early March who did both imports and exports. We have two other people, but they are gearing up for a huge project, and they can only help out perhaps half the day. They haven't been in the business long and can't do the full range, but they can do bits that help.

Being forced to take several days off in December to use up my vacation time didn't help, on top of Christmas Day and New Year's. Then the two week severe cold spell has wrecked havoc on deliveries (diesel engines don't like the cold), and truckers can't make or are being late on deliveries, which mean we spend a lot of time on the phone explaining to customers, trying to calm them down, and trying to find different truckers for some shipments.

Yesterday, supervisor sat down with me and helped organize my file cart better. Thing is, if I don't have the time to get to things, then being better organized doesn't really help.

Work was just horrid this afternoon. Started out all right. I kept having issues to deal with. I spent most of my lunch hour on the phone dealing with a massive problem. At 2:30 or so I mentioned to supervisor that I'd not been able to get to some important things. She glared at me and said I better get them done. More problems. Customers demanding things I *had* to get done right then and there. Manager sent me an email saying if I'm "following the process [of stuff in order to be done in my cart]" then I shouldn't have any problems getting stuff done. She actually expects that if I have problems that take up 1/3 of my day that I'm still going to get everything done. Talk about unrealistic expectations! I was told OT has to end. I was still there at 6 as I had other things (rate quotes to customers) that had to be done before I left, otherwise they would scream bloody murder on Monday. I told manager what I had been able to be done. She said I can't expect them to do my work. I told her I wasn't expecting them to do my work, but I was simply stating a fact that I had not been able to get to a lot. She just shrugged and said I'd have to do it on Monday. No kidding! I'm sure she talked to supervisor after I left and they pulled my file cart apart. And I'm sure I'll hear about it on Monday.

The one new girl is a golden girl and being treated like the 8th wonder of the world since she learns so quickly. She has very little industry experience, though, and had been off 2 years after having a baby. Maybe 5 years total experience in a different area. She can do no wrong.

I had been planning on spending $1K on a new dive computer when I got my income tax refund. That's not going to happen now. I've got the $1K emergency fund that Dave Ramsey recommends, but no other savings besides my current 401K (balance is $30K right now) and IRA (rollover 401K from previous job, balance is nearly $57K). I would be willing to cash out the current 401K, regardless of the tax penalty. I've been spending my spare cash on diving.

I'm selling my one rifle (including ammo and accessories) - should net me about $1K. My diving drysuit has been up for sale for a month, but no takers as of yet. Doesn't help that it was a custom suit, but I've shrunk too much for it. It's been reduced to $950. I've got an underwater camera I don't use up for sale ($100). Trying to sell any bits and pieces I can. I'm going to be going over my budget with a fine tooth comb this weekend. Really my food budget is the only place I can really cut. The weather has been so cold here that I've had to keep my heat more and higher than I normally would.

A friend's son helps people with their resumes on the side, so I'm going to be sending mine to him this weekend.