The buck stops here

The VP-Finance left for the USA last Nov. 13 and the CEO flew last Nov. 15...because of the 9/11 attacks our company officers don't travel together anymore...they'd rather take separate flights...so management will be gone for approximately two to three weeks...and I am responsible for a manufacturing plant employing 12o people...we need to prepare and shipped the customers orders...last week we made 4-40 ft and 1-20 ft container shipments...and for this week we are targetting 3-4 40 ft containers....my hands are all tied up with a lot of decisions to be made and plans to adjust and notwithstanding the daily production glitches that have to be solved...my attention span gets narrower each day...along with the stress that seems to be cumulative and building up each day...until the week end arrives...work really gets the best of me...my head aches...arghhhh! life is full of ironies...the pain and joy of leadership...keeps my spirit up...