97 items on the To Do List

97 things on my To-Do List is not a bad thing. Actually, that is sort of low for me. I’m usually running in the 150’s or 200’s. But, when I see 97 as the number, I begin to worry about what have I all forgotten to place on the To Do List... because I know that there are things missing. I know that I must have generalized on some of these items to indicate one thing for something that takes about 25 steps.

One of these is the task “Move Queen Medusa’s account”. To everyone else, this sounds pretty darn easy. You just switch the computer and you are done. But it’s so much more than that. She doesn’t have a replacement yet, so I need to know who is going to need access to her current files. There is a phone to worry about and a database that she is the administrator of that all needs to be changed. I think 25 steps is probably an underestimate now that I got answers to some of my questions (i.e. Is Queen Medusa going to still have to do things for the department she is leaving? Finally got answered with the big “YES”).

 

Now, if this just happened on one or two of my items on my To-Do list, I’d probably be ok, but looking at it, I’m pretty darn screwed because a lot of these have multiple steps and there are going to be follow up tasks once I completed them. Additionally, a lot is about the “part-time tech staff” that I’m supposed to be getting. I know who it is (he doesn’t talk to me), and I have to come up with a  good nickname for him. He is of Indian descent but I don’t want to call him the Indian or anything like that. And I’m not going to call him “guru” because he isn’t better than me (although the boss still hasn’t told me what he does or doesn’t know so I have no idea of what level of skill I’m getting this person with and how out of date these skills may or may not be). So, I’m open for suggestions on a good nickname for him so I can blog about him without calling him the PT Tech Staff. That just seems way to long as it is!

 

Either way, all of the tasks I have for the PT Tech Staff is going to be MULTIPLE things to do – and that’s without putting any training into the equation. And since the boss hasn’t given me any details of when, where, how, and what pertaining to the PT Tech Staff, I’m kind of lost with what needs to be done until I have answers.

 

What’s scary today? Queen Medusa was nice to me.