hah! that's a bad day?

Don't want to disparage MrMcMuffin's bad day, but that is small beer compared to my management problems. We are a small team of 9 within a much larger team. We have not had an overall team manager for about 6 months, and all the duties have fallen on Ms Ginger Cake and I. Add to this an unprecedented amount of child protection work, one social worker leaving tomorrow, two workers on the verge of a breakdown and stacks of illness, and we are a mess.

Thankfully other managers have taken this seriously, but there's not much they can do about the volume of work and the unwillingness of other qualified and suitable workers to get into or stay in this line of work. I fantasise about working on the deli counter at Tesco's. This has been a longstanding dream of mine from when I was in residential work, I used to love the idea of always going home at the end of the day. I get to do that now, but it's so late I might as well stay over! Ms Ginger Cake and I have joked about setting up hammocks in our new office, it's worth a thought, but what would I do without Mr McMuffin's contented little snores?