what a day

Wow.  Today was quite the day.


The gal who's been training me was out today so, after 4 days of training, I was on my own!  The scariest part was that she and I hadn't been able to go through this entire process from start to finish at ALL last week.  There's a lot of steps, requiring approval/input from others so if they were delayed, we just moved on to something else and never got back to them.  Or she'd grab me one afternoon to say that all input was back, and we'd do the last part.  But never from a to z.  I took copious notes, typed them up, printed them out, and brought them with me each day I trained with her.  I would correct my notes, re-type them, and repeat the process the next day.  So, by Friday, I figured I was pretty OK.


Well, today, everything started off well.  I got to work early, fixed my notes from Friday (because I didn't have time Friday afternoon to do it all).  Got the email that signaled the beginning of it all, and off I went!  All of the stuff that I had to do before waiting on approvals went incredibly smoothly.  (Thus I should have known that the rest of the day would be a mess)  Then after I got the first round of approvals (well, 3 of the 4 I needed), I opened the program that does something to the files and then zips them, and I kept getting an error (part of which said "zippy threw an exception" which just cracked me up!).  So, I asked the computer savvy guy I know and he zipped 2 of the files for me, told me to contact IT to get winzip installed on my computer, and I thought all would be good.  Well, I tried working on the 3rd file (once I had winzip) and zippy was still throwing exceptions AND there were other errors.  Talked to tech guy again, he said he'd look them over for errors and zip them for me too.  Got the first two approved the 2nd time, uploaded and out the door.


To try and spare you the boredom of every step of my day, let's just say that:

• Installing winzip did nothing to help me.  Damn zippy and his exception-throwing.
• One file that I had to upload to a vendor (not one of the ones referenced above) uploaded smoothly, but when they sent a file back to me, someone got to it before me, moved it, and I couldn't find it anywhere on the network drive.  Which  meant that I couldn't finish that part of the task.
• The person who was supposed to approve one of my 4 files referenced aboe took until 4:30 to approve the file, and this was one that needed 2 approvals.  This is when I discovered that zippy wasn't going to stop throwing things, so I had to get tech guy to zip AGAIN. Managed to get it sent out, but by 5:10 I still hadn't heard back about the 2nd approval....so I just went home.

I just hate it, because I feel like even though I did what I was supposed to do, and the glitches weren't my fault, I may have come across as an idiot.  If you know me well, you know that I can't stand to have others view me in a negative light.  I know it's going to happen, I just don't like it to.  So, I just hope that everything can be fixed tomorrow, and it won't be my fault!  Ack!