GALA

[talyen]

I feel like I'm going to fail at GALA. We have master classes with Bernice Johnson Reagon, the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, for two or three afternoon while we're there. We are supposed to pretty much know (= memorize completely) the music before we get down there.

I also have signed up for Festival Choir. We have rehearsal each morning. We are expected to be pretty familiar with the music before we get down there.

And I'm working 12+ hours/day right now. I am actually scheduled for 12 hour shifts for 10 of the 11 days before I leave for GALA, with pager on-call anytime I'm not working (and I'm really wondering if I'll get to stop working after only 12 hours). I can pray for 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep, but I'm not sure when the time for music is going to happen.

And my director gave me heck when I told her I'd be working and might miss parts of rehearsals and the performance we have this weekend. I feel like I'm working really hard and not getting much for it. Maybe it's just that I'm tired.

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

That is insane hours! Is this just a temporary deadline thing? Do you at least get paid the overtime? Or huge amount of time off in lieu?

[talyen.livejournal.com]

Yes, insane. It's temporary because the project "goes live" on 1 July. Each time some part of the project has gone live, my team has worked insane hours to get it going, but this is the first time we've been actually scheduled to work like crazy.

The CIO wanted me to work more.

I get one day paid overtime, because a holiday happens to fall during that time, and I won't get to take it.

I will not get any comp time. In fact, when I leave for GALA the following week, I will be spending vacation time.

This is the worst that it gets, but I am very tired of not having time for the important things in life, like eating and sleeping. I gave up running long ago.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I hope the job is, otherwise, worth it.

I have the strong temptation to feel in such situations that someone else's lack of staffing or planning isn't my crisis. Or, at least, to expect compensation for the amount of destruction this would impose on my life. But, I live up here in the communist north where workers have some rights, so maybe I'm just spoiled.