FINAL Busy Season Stats

Purpose: To chronicle the events of busy season 2009 and to conclude upon results of procedures.

Procedures:

1. Work. Flat out. For 54 days straight. For 12-15 hours per day (except for weekends, when it was more like 4-8 hours per day). Two clients included in sample. Results: Noted that results on one client met expectations, while the other did not meet expectations. Deficiencies noted will be discussed and documented in future performance reviews (both external and self-reviews).

2. Bond with team. As previously noted, results at one client met expectations but not the other. On the client where expectations were not met, team bonding was not an issue - they were pretty much a cohesive unit to begin with. On the second client, potential personality conflicts were identified. However, the risk of a total team meltdown were mitigated by having game night. It was noted that pictionary and Cranium were crowd pleasers, while scattergories and "the movie game" were somewhat less popular. This was likely due to the utter domination exhibited by the senior manager and manager in these games. Response: Hate the game, not the player.

3. Bake copious amounts of sweets. Approximately 150 cookies baked, utilizing 10 sticks of butter, 11.25 cups of flour, 7.5 cups of sugar, and 60 oz. of chocolate chips. Results: Sugar rush, potential diabetic coma...although the usual post-dinner slump is more likely to blame for the latter.

4. Attempt to engage in exercise. Results: Inconsistent. Alternate procedures included sleep, stress, and whining about not having enough time to exercise. These alternative steps were deemed sufficient since sleep is needed for basic functionality and to avoid complete and utter madness. Stress and whining surely take off calories since the act of typing complaints into IM or the phone surely burns calories. Just nod your head and agree.

Conclusion: Audits are complete and although additional clean up of documentation is required, unqualified opinions are supportable. Physical and mental health - marginal but improving. My life is still deemed reasonable.