and this is why...

i don't like taking vacation from work. <---- i know things have really changed because i can say that and/or write it without flinching. there used to be a time when i'd take off work in a heartbeat, vacation, sick, whatever and not have a care in the world. however, in my current position i can't leave and be carefree because i'm always worried that something won't get taken care of like it would if i were there. and today i see that is so true. it was such a hectic today. i got back to work and i had 55 emails sitting in my inbox, not bad since i'd been on vacation for two days, it could've been worse. i saw things that were taken care, things that were handled but my instructions ignored, and things that didn't get taken care of. so i spent the day trying to play catch up and figure out just what was going on. ugh! i can't wait to see what my desk looks like the tuesday after thanksgiving when i return to work or the first of the year after i return from a weeklong vacation. *sigh* i don't want to work in a call center ever again if i can help it, but i can say i miss those days when i could go home and not have a care in the world about what i had to do to prepare for the next day. hopefully i can get to work very early tomorrow, knock somethings out and then get everything back to normal and caught up.