Up and Down Week at Work

There is plenty of bad news on the horizon for me with my work situation in the future, the main part being that by mid-year my job won't exist anymore. I'm looking for the right new job and confident I will find something better paying and beter managed.

Now the bad news this week was that my immediate supervisor found a new job. He actually accepted the job of which my previous supervisor here had and just retired from. It's bad news because he is a great boss and it is tough to lose him in this time of trouble and strife, but good news for him because he was in the same situation as me and he deserves that new job of less stress and worry.

Now the good news here was that another employee that was at risk found a new job. She gave her -1 day notice. She emailed in her resignation effective the day before. I think that is the definition of "Burning your bridges". Anyways this is good news only because she was the worst employee ever. She didn't know anything about IT, yet bragged she did, she barely did any work, and she would "work" extra hours on the weekend and take off during the week with her comp time, even though no one ever saw her here. She had the impending layoffs to save her plus the fact this is a state agency which is hard to get fired from, and she was not only female but black and a vet. (have to keep the quotas up)

Ideally we all would leave at the same time and to the same place and wash away all the stress there is currently here.