Friday. Software drop.
Boss: Ooops, big problem, Adam please do x, y, and z!
Me: Um, no! I have my son's pinewood derby!
Boss: That's ok, you can work until then, then come back and work late!
:aaahhh:
Saturday (the day after). Celebrating son's birthday (same son, for those of you keeping track) all day long. Boss calls in the middle of it.
Boss: Adam! Please do x2, y2, and z2!
Me: Um, no! I'm celebrating birthday stuff! (fortunately away from my computer and any internet connection)
Boss: Oh. Well, you can start working afterwards.
afterwards...
Me: Hey boss, it's actually not my problem, developer x messed up here, here, and here.
Boss: Oh! thanks for finding that! Now get to work on x3, y3, z3!
Sunday. Church and so forth. Boss calls.
Boss: Customer says it doesn't work. Fix it!
sigh
Fixes it over 8 hour period on sunday.
Monday - came in late because, guess what, I wasn't able to get some important home tasks done over the weekend due to work.
Boss: Hey Adam...
/headdesk
I can't really complain, I clocked over 60 hours last week, and though I don't get overtime pay, I am paid by the hour, but still.
Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Also I find that I drop all pretenses of eating well and appropriately under stress, so when I update my graph below you'll see another silly spike for this weekend.
-Adam