Work-related Rant

There is no point to this post, so don't bother looking for one. I just want to rant about my work, and how I've worked almost forty hours this week already, and I still feel like I'm making no headway. AND I spilled one liter of 6M sodium hydroxide on my jeans today and had to walk around in loaner-sweat pants. I just left work with a shitload of things left for other people to finish up for me, and yet there's still more work to do. My company needs to learn to look beyond the bottom line and realize that there's only so many samples we mushrooms in the lab can analyze before a deadline, and they've already taken in more than twice that capacity. I feel like I should go into work this saturday, but after another week of working 50+ hours, they can go screw themselves. My birthday is Friday, and although I have decidedly not been looking forward to it for many reasons, and although I've already celebrated it with my family, I'm taking this weekend for me. End of story. I'm having a 'birthday party' this Saturday, at which most of my friends can meet Mel and Lyne (no promises, but I think they can make it), and then the other half of my friends can see my place. But first I must clean it because it is a sty. I need saturday to sleep, to clean and cook and entertain, so, as I've said, work can go screw itself. I'll be there on Monday for another grueling week of what is shaping out to be months of this hectic, bone-throbbing work.