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Nov. 12th, 2011 10:32 amWell, any plans I had for the weekend are hereby scrapped. I'm pretty sure this is some kind of bronchitis relapse, but at this point I'm just weary of going to the doctor and there's not a lot they can do anyway. So I am settled in and resigned to do nothing this weekend, which is not a bad way to spend it at any rate. Though I could do without the wracking cough.
It has been a long month, no lie.
It's been incredibly tumultuous at work, but more around me than at me. My boss left, one of my other bosses (I am apparently destined always to be the servant of multiple masters) stepped into her shoes, we had a harassment case that caused a researcher to be fired, the entire group is cycling through a cold, two of our researchers left for other jobs, and our senior management researcher is probably going to leave because she didn't get my boss's job. One of our other management researchers has been supervising our analysts, but she's now moving back into her original team which leaves our poor analysts without someone to step in and buffer between them and the fundraisers. Our intern is leaving in December, but until he goes he's now my minion, because my new new boss doesn't have the time to manage him anymore.
I've been in a lot of closed-door meetings, some planned and some impromptu, about the various comings and goings. My function in these meetings is ostensibly to become informed about team structure, but in reality I think I'm basically the therapist. Both my ex new boss and my new new boss have given me the same basic structure speech about three times, and it seems to be essentially that they just need someone discreet to talk it all out with. This last one, literally, I sat there with a notepad and listened while new new boss talked about the issues in the department.
It seems like it should be stressful, and I was a little wary about the way the team seemed to be disintegrating around me, but my job is pretty necessary and there's not a lot of restructuring the team can undergo; it's not like we can dissolve the department, it just wouldn't work. Plus, whenever someone asks me to do something and I say cheerily "No problem!" they remark on how glad they are to have me here. And it genuinely is no problem: nothing has come up that I haven't been able to handle. The budget stuff is new to me and admittedly it's not easy, but given that nobody else knows how to do it either, I think I'm coming out ahead.
There hasn't been a whole lot of time to write, but on the other hand I've been in training at least once a week, sometimes two or three times, since the job began. Trainingstravaganza is over now, which means I can do the work when it comes up instead of cramming five days' worth into three days.
So it all seems to be working out, which is not unexpected but still awfully nice. If things continue the way they've begun, I'll be ruling the place in no time.
It has been a long month, no lie.
It's been incredibly tumultuous at work, but more around me than at me. My boss left, one of my other bosses (I am apparently destined always to be the servant of multiple masters) stepped into her shoes, we had a harassment case that caused a researcher to be fired, the entire group is cycling through a cold, two of our researchers left for other jobs, and our senior management researcher is probably going to leave because she didn't get my boss's job. One of our other management researchers has been supervising our analysts, but she's now moving back into her original team which leaves our poor analysts without someone to step in and buffer between them and the fundraisers. Our intern is leaving in December, but until he goes he's now my minion, because my new new boss doesn't have the time to manage him anymore.
I've been in a lot of closed-door meetings, some planned and some impromptu, about the various comings and goings. My function in these meetings is ostensibly to become informed about team structure, but in reality I think I'm basically the therapist. Both my ex new boss and my new new boss have given me the same basic structure speech about three times, and it seems to be essentially that they just need someone discreet to talk it all out with. This last one, literally, I sat there with a notepad and listened while new new boss talked about the issues in the department.
It seems like it should be stressful, and I was a little wary about the way the team seemed to be disintegrating around me, but my job is pretty necessary and there's not a lot of restructuring the team can undergo; it's not like we can dissolve the department, it just wouldn't work. Plus, whenever someone asks me to do something and I say cheerily "No problem!" they remark on how glad they are to have me here. And it genuinely is no problem: nothing has come up that I haven't been able to handle. The budget stuff is new to me and admittedly it's not easy, but given that nobody else knows how to do it either, I think I'm coming out ahead.
There hasn't been a whole lot of time to write, but on the other hand I've been in training at least once a week, sometimes two or three times, since the job began. Trainingstravaganza is over now, which means I can do the work when it comes up instead of cramming five days' worth into three days.
So it all seems to be working out, which is not unexpected but still awfully nice. If things continue the way they've begun, I'll be ruling the place in no time.
