12-13-2006, 05:09 PM
.RJ Wrote:The software I work on has a yearly reporting cycle from the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30th) until the reports are submitted (by Jan 30th). From October through February I am slammed. Normal week is ~55-60 hrs and I do a lot of work from home in the evenings.Sounds similar to my project actually. We lost a lot of people so far this year due to the project contract ending this year and us going up for re-compete, but the workload has remained the same for sustainment/implementation/development, so everyone is feeling the stress here. Hopefully this damn re-compete will go through just fine and we'll start hiring people again. These 60 hour work-weeks are kickin my ass.
We have lost a lot of people this year (lay offs and quitting), and we have made a lot of new sals this summer/fall, so the workload is streteched *really* thin here. Everyone on the support/implementation side is in the same boat and it sucks.