Take my job. Please.

So my company has decided that within the next 6 months or so they want to rebrand every single product that we own. This in and of itself is bad enough. However, they also want to either move manufacturers or reformulate all of these products as well. As a side note, when you move to another manufacturer, your formula almost always changes.

So you would think, "Hey it makes sense that since we'll have to relabel everything anyway, let's wait until we have the formula complete and then we'll only have to create and/or change the label once."

However, since this would make sense we are doing exactly the opposite. So for every product in every country that I'm over (quite a few of which do not share labels with the other countries I'm over), I get to create and/or revise their labels twice in this next year. For the labels that are shared, these are only shared because we just got done combining several of them. So they're still looked at twice - don't you worry that they wouldn't be.

This is in addition to reviewing all of the different formulas to make sure that my countries can take them.

Oh did I mention that we're moving products from Australia to a local manufacturer but these products still have to meet AU guidelines in order to be sold there and they have to be re-registered and verified that they can get through customs without any import permit issues?

Oh yeah. We're still creating new products as well. And not easy ones to get into our countries. Difficult ones that require a lot of legal research and follow up.

This is all IN ADDITION to my normal duties and the normal problem solving that I have to do.

So my post picture is exactly how I feel every time I get an email or someone shows up at my cube.

I know what you are all thinking. No really I do. You're thinking:

"WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Suck it up white girl."

I agree.