Work the last 2 weeks

I had 3 days work last week, an extra long weekend in between, and 3 days work this week (I could get used to this!), so overall I've managed to do just over a week's work in the last 2. Here's what I've been up to........

• Spending some extremely productive time with George, from our WFM product vendors in the States (no, I'm referring to lunch at the pub with the team and George and his lovely girlfriend Jacqui) finding solutions for seasonality problems, clarifying the correct process for branch mergers, and working on public holiday BEDs (Business Express Deposits, for the uninitiated). It was a busy 2 days but saved us a whole lot of work in the long-term, so thanks heaps George! (hope you enjoyed the rest of your stay)
• Working on the Melbourne Cup public holiday in November for those branches that have the day off (when is Sydney Cup? Are we getting ripped off a public holiday somewhere?)
• Updating our pro-rated FTE summary template (don't ask) so that it runs off the same information as all our other reporting. ie Which branches belong to which regions, what sort of relief calculation they use etc.
• Catching up on the mountains of emails that arrived whilst I was away.
• Compiling updated branch attributes in preparation for the June forecast
• Testing other branch attributes for change and impact
• Creating an impact scenario and proposed new FTE plan for a proposed new merger
• Creating impact scenarios for some operating hours changes in Victoria
• Organising new data ports for Adam and myself so we can use our new laptop at the same time as our current PCs (good for running big reports/forecasts etc which slow your machine down for everything else as well), then organising for these to be transferred to the new building when we move in August, since they wouldn't have been included on our original specifications.
• Attending a meeting with the BIG team to discuss sales plans for next year and making sure targets are adequately resourced
• Updating and distributing monthly reports.
• Updating process documents for branch mergers with the information and process that came out of George's visit. (Yay, lots of fun ;-P)
• Having my holiday fade into a distant memory.......Sigh.