I'm not saying this to complain about my work hours, because I know there are a lot of people that work more hours than I do. But I am tired. I need to relax after having worked eight days in a row. The worst part is not the amount of work but the total lack of planning from my boss. I'm frustrated because my boss doesn't plan anything.

One and a half weeks ago, my boss told me to complete the process of reimaging our computers with Windows 10 21H2. One of my colleagues was working on it, but my boss didn't believe he would finish before the deadline, which was on Monday. So the assignment was mine, even though I had Thursday off, and I had a consultant showing up on Friday. Fair enough, I don't mind working hard to make a deadline when my boss needs it.

My first surprise was that the process of reimaging our computers wasn't as far along as I thought. My colleague had taken the easy way every time something was a bit difficult. That meant more work for me. The result was that I worked Saturday and Sunday to have everything done by Monday. One small thing had to be corrected Monday, and then the assignment was finished.

My boss had Monday through Wednesday off, but he told me that the helpdesk would begin reimaging computers Monday and hand them out to our users. But the helpdesk was busy handing out new iPads and didn't have time for reimaging the computers. When my boss came to work on Thursday, the helpdesk still hadn't handed out a single computer. And my boss had told me that I shouldn't do it. So, I felt as if I had been working hard for no good reason.

This weekend, I did a lot of practical things that I didn't have time for last weekend. I have, of course, also been relaxed, which I needed very much.