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I love my job, but

  • May. 13th, 2022 at 10:25 PM
jic: Daniel Jackson (SG1) firing weapon, caption "skill to do comes of doing" (Default)
My manager...
I've been with Local Utility for five years as of last September, and it's super awesome and I love it. My team has always had a challenge getting good work funded, though.

Also last September, I got a new manager. Who is pretty much carelessly but not maliciously offensive in every possible way. To the point where I gave Very Constructive Recommendations on our last employee engagement survey of last year and then, in mid-April, actually filed an HR complaint about her aggressively mis-gendering me. On Monday is our first intentional conversation since then. I'm a bit nervous.

This morning I woke up from a dream where the date was Thursday May 28, and at our daily stand-up meeting (a scrum ceremony - you don't have to google it if you're not interested in tech, it's not super relevant), a person who is NOT our manager announced to everyone that [Contractor's] last day would be "tomorrow", which was news to everyone including [Contractor]. Awkward. Cue awkward laughter from [Contractor] and everyone else. And then he admits that he's already spent his next paycheck so this is kind of a problem. I wake up. I get to work, and a couple hours in, I get an email from [Vendor Employee] that today is his last day with [Vendor]! And then at a later meeting, I hear from a colleague that he heard my manager that apparently I'm not going to be working on the Big Project for much longer? Which is news to me - because due to the aforementioned HR complaint, I haven't had a real conversation with Manager in a month, and I'm kinda freaking out.

In other news, my partner and I just started watching White Collar (after I showed them Talitha78's songvid. And I'm both reading and watching The Witcher, and we're watching Manifest.

In other other news, We're mid-remodel of my bathroom. There's a LOT of dust.

Comments

dine: (WC - Neal - coffeeforcloser)
[personal profile] dine wrote:
May. 14th, 2022 06:23 am (UTC)
wow, that work/manager thing sounds super unfun! hope HR can help sort out your actual situation, so you're not left wondering about rumours

White Collar is so much fun! enjoy your watching. I've always liked that vid, but I think this OT-y one is my fave WC vid: Let's Misbehave
jic: Daniel Jackson (SG1) firing weapon, caption "skill to do comes of doing" (Default)
[personal profile] jic wrote:
May. 15th, 2022 03:28 am (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to pull it up when cedarfoxy is awake