I'm Tired

The past few weeks have kicked my butt. I have been putting in 11-12 hours almost everyday at work. We are understaffed and drowning in mountains of papers. And how does upper management reward good, hard working employees? They force them to resign when they request time off. One of my hardest working employees needed to take some time off for her family and upper management's answer to her request was "Work, Resign, or be terminated."

I told my boss that is not the way to treat good employees and she just looked at me and shrugged, turned around and made her phone call. The employee resigned.

So, now we are even more understaffed. Which means the remaining employees are going to be slave driven until the work is done. I'm not the type to sit in my office and do paper work. I get out on the floor with my employees and labor with them.

I had last Sunday off and I did nothing but sit around in my pajamas all day. I am so tired. I have this Monday scheduled off (I scheduled it 2 months ago) and I am so excited just by the thought of sleeping in. I have been getting up at 3am every morning and it's hard. I don't want to do anything when I get home from work. My family is feeling neglected. I can't blame them. We will only have to work this many hours for about 2-3 more weeks. As soon as this season is over, we all will be laid off and I am looking forward to it. I am thinking about volunteering to be one of the first ones to go. I'm just so tired, physically and mentally. I need rest.