additional duties duly completed!

After four weeks (and five weekends) of struggling to keep the loose ends from unravelling while other staff take holiday the end is nearly in sight.

Tuesday is due to see the return of the last traveller and there will then be a final push to make good the deficit in my own workload before the normal level of background backlog is resumed.

The pressure to keep the bosses happy while dealing calmly with their relentless demands (including their insistence that I shouldn't take all the responsibility for the loose ends by working evenings and weekends, and yet not making any other arrangments for the slack to be taken up) has certainly been almost overwhelming.

I am considering putting all this month's salary onto lottery tickets in an effort to buy my way out.