Prioritising

Yesterday was a very, very busy day. Especially in the afternoon. Come 4pm, when I'm usually winding down for the evening, things were heating up. Specifically in the arena of environmental monitoring. You see, they are manufacturing today. Everybody agrees that it's too early to be doing so. I don't think anybody really believes that we're ready for it. However, it's all taken on steam-train levels of momentum, and all we can do is to scramble around getting the bare minimum ready.

Yesterday afternoon involved getting the documentation (and forms) ready for environmental monitoring. I got the main SOP just before afternoon tea, with the faithful promise that I'd have the forms ready for authorisation by the end of the day. I didn't seriously believe it would happen, to be honest, but it did. Mainly because they prioritised the important ones.

Anyway. On to today. The complication yesterday is that QA are doing an internal audit in preparation for a TGA audit at the end of the month, and they are under the mistaken belief that my top priority should not be making documents available for Production to use in the next couple of days. They think I should be dropping all of that to run after them for the audit at the end of the month.

Darth Chaos, who has gone from permanent employee to contractor, is heavily involved in this, and she's the one I just told off for giving me problematic priorities. I told her to go and argue with Production over priorities if she really thinks it's that important. Somehow, I don't think she will.

I will be very, very glad when we get to Christmas. Because then I'll get three weeks' break, and afterwards, we will start to resume normal operations.