Complications………
Current Mood:
Funny
I’m exhausted. I stayed up long enough to watch the State of the Union and put away the laundry, even though I should’ve been in bed by that time. But I still would have gotten some decent sleep. Instead I was awake for 2 hours coughing. =( The good news is that I didn’t have my coughing fit this morning, just an occasional one through out the day.
The last few days my life as gotten decidedly more complicated, in so many ways. I hate complications………
One of the ways, I can’t really discuss; I just want everything to be resolved, I care and like the people who are involved which makes the situation even harder. It doesn’t help that I have the nature that wants to mediate, even when I’m upset.
The other complication, ironically, I can only discuss here.
I was given a bombshell from my boss and no one in the office knows yet. (Which is why I can’t post this anywhere else) She has been given a new location that hasn’t even opened yet. Our office is one of the small offices that is used as a training ground. I was suspecting something was up, they move people around at this time of year. I’m not happy to see her go. =( But I’m happy for her, she has done a great job here and helped get our office where we both wanted it to be.
But what I didn’t expect that even though they she knows that we are planning on moving that she argued on my behalf to give me this location until I move. That was so cool and meant a lot to me. In fact that is why our area supervisor was quizzing me on how sure are we on moving. I think if we weren’t moving I would’ve taken over this office.
Torn is upset that I told work about our moving because I could’ve gotten a promotion and more money out of it. But I’ve always been upfront about my plans and I don’t I really want the promotion. Not at this point in my life anyway.
With the irregular schedule, I’m not able to do half the stuff I use it and if I took a promotion it would be even worst, more stress and more hours. I really want to do more of the site work and evolve in that, I have no idea where to begin or in what, I just know that I have that idea in my head. My boss’ transferring to my office last year made me realize that about myself after we butted heads so badly.
But there may be another opportunity for me, if I’m willing to go through the headaches. Our area supervisor is playing around with the idea of moving the assistants around from the offices because those locations tend to get stale and closed off to new people and ideas. I love my location, just over 3 miles from home. But it speaks how highly I’m thought of if they want to me move to a problem office to try and stir things up. Torn really doesn’t want me driving that far, which wouldn’t be bad if the traffic wasn’t so horrible. But if I can get a raise out of it and it would look great on my resume when it comes to references.
My boss feels that I can really make a difference by just putting my head down and tackling my job regardless of the issues that will come up with that office boss. I’ve worked with her before because I started at that location and it was ok, that office boss gave me the impression that she was hiding a lazy streak. My current boss feels that it would showcase my strengths better and expose the problems with that location’s office boss, which will either shape her up or move her out. Which with that kind of ego enforcement, can easily go to my head……..grin
It also helps that if my current company ever moves out to the Portland area, that they would love to have me. This company is big on retaining people and promoting from within.
I’m also worrying about my co-workers, who over time have come depend on me for their stress relief and venting board. I love laughter and love making people laugh. I feel that laughter helps starves off the heart attacks that stress can cause. Several of my people have given indication that they don’t know if they would stick around if I transferred.
At the same time, I would love to be able to help the office manager that will be coming into my current location.
There is so much to think about, but I guess I shouldn’t stress it too much. My area supervisor hasn’t approached me yet. But my boss will be announcing her transfer at our office meeting Sunday, which explains why she wanted me to bring my camera.
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