I just had to leave work. I had enough.
It’s that time of year where we have a huge crush of activity. This happens about twice a year. Shit just starts to happen all at once. It’s hard enough juggling stuff under such tight deadlines, having to guiltily delegate stuff to my boss, and still not spend ridiculous hours in the office. Because, you know, I have stuff to do at home and someone to come home to.
This is, of course, making up for the relatively slow first quarter I had. When I had much less to do. When I continued to blow off some things I had been blowing off simply because I really don’t want to do them, even though that would have been the best time to do them. When they pulled the rug out from under our nice secure employment and everyone was pissy for a few weeks. (Looks like I forgot to blog about that. We’ll save that story for later.)
So I’m busy enough as it is.
What I don’t need today – or ever, really – is people trying to get out of doing their due diligence (I’m sure there’s “cost” involved somewhere). You swear up and down it’s going to run just fine. Well if it’s that simple, then run it ahead of time and prove me wrong. Because it cannot go wrong when it comes time to run my batch. I’ve been screwed on every one of these I’ve done in the last 6 months because of similar circumstances.
What I don’t need today is people trying to bully me into doing something a certain way because it’s “obvious” and “we don’t need to do it” and “it’s just like that other thing we did.” Hello, we work in pharmaceuticals! The FDA needs to see these reasons on paper. I can’t just toss it into my document because it’s supposed to be figured out already. I can’t cover your ass because you didn’t address it in the first place. I get your reasoning and – guess what! – I completely agree. But it needs to be documented on paper. So just write me a fucking memo. And since we’re going to keep having this argument every time, how about if you document on paper why we don’t need to do this anymore. And then I need you R&D people to get the Commercial people to agree. You directors that they pay the big bucks to make these kinds of decisions.
I know that’s cryptic and it takes even longer to explain what I’m talking about and there’s only so much I can say. I just needed to get that off my chest. Came on home so I could stop stressing about it, since all that arguing today took away from time spent on that one protocol I should have finished yesterday that is taking way longer than I anticipated.
Okay, there. I’m done. Off to dinner, then to choir.
