Musings from 11/12

Things are extremely volatile around here today.  My problem admin child got hauled into an office and given a going over by another TL about her poor attitude this morning. I had to hear it after the event. She’s threatening to walk out. My pregnant officer is livid about what happened yesterday and being accused of delaying correspondence. Lots of smart comments coming from that direction today. This morning I was sticky taping cards to boxes of chocolates to go to some of the key contacts and was given the evil eye by one of the fun police. Mind you this is happening while staff around me are freely using office supplies to decorate their pods and one group is even having a noisy secret santa session.  This really sucks and it is making me angry and childish.

My new boss came to me and asked for staff to do Community Recovery. I childishly said I wouldn’t be releasing any staff and then having it come back to bite me in the arse when I couldn’t meet deadlines, then turned back to my computer and ignored him. He asked if I was sure and I repeated that he was not getting anybody from my team, without even looking at him. He later came up and asked if I'd like to talk to him about why I want to stab him in the ear with a pen. I don't conceal my feelings well!

But it gets worse.  We have these weekly deadline reports that go to the highest levels of this agency.  We produce 4 times what some areas do but consistently make sure we are not on the report (all hell breaks loose when we are).  So guess what – we are going to have something on the report this very week.  Can’t be avoided and it doesn’t matter how hard I tried to ensure it didn’t happen no-one will be interested in my excuses.

On the positive side I’ve found a job to apply for out of the blue.

Maybe all this work shite is meant to happen?