Oh hi, just dropped in to whine. I'm so stressed about work right now. ;;
We have an audit coming up on Friday to look at our SOPs. Well, I write the SOPs, but I've only been writing them for a couple of months. There are tons of old SOPs that I need to correct and some new ones that I need to write. Ok.
I also work in production. I should be in SOPs full time to get them done, but we also need production so I split my time between them. All right.
Production does not have an audit coming up. Production needs me for one thing right now -- to surface mount some boards. I understand that I need to be in production and get those boards done for production. Otherwise our orders will be late getting out and we will look bad to our customers and possibly even lose customers. It's important that I have sufficient time to surface mount boards and help with production.
But if we fail this audit, we lose our ISO certification. That's bad. That's really, really bad. I need to be in SOPs for as much time as I possibly can to get ready. I cannot fix ten years worth of bad SOPs in a month when I'm only allowed on SOPs for two afternoons per week.
My production boss will not let me spend more than two afternoons a week in SOPs, because she NEEDS me in production. But I NEED to be in SOPs, we
cannot lose our certification.
I need a clone. I need to be in two places at once. I need to not lose us our certifications. They needed to put me on SOPs months ago if they wanted to be ready for this audit. They need more people who understand how to surface mount, because having one production-based person in the whole building who is good at it is not efficient for anybody.
I need more time.
Breathe in, breathe out, chocolate. Breathe in, breathe out, chocolate.
On the plus side, all this stress will be gone after Friday. I like short-term stress so much better than long-term stress. ^^ I have enough chocolate and coffee to get me through Friday. I got this handled!