Why art thou shitty, day?
(Warning: 100% rant below...)
This week has been rough, this day has been rougher yet. :/ My last day at my current position within the company (and at that location) is a week from tomorrow, and I feel like the closer it gets, the farther away I get from the safety of the eye of the storm.
My immediate supervisor is under enormous stress at work from her boss, the building we just moved into is still in shamles and a mess and a half mostly because one of the people we hired recently isn't showing as much promise as we'd hoped and doesn't have much initiatve at all, and even though we essentially hired two people to replace me instead of one, she's worried I'm going to leave a gaping hole in the company when I shift. Which is kinda bullshit. I have trained my replacement, who has been doing my job on her own for the last month while I do stuff for my new position.
And I get it. I do. Shit's going down and we've been the dynamic duo of getting it taken care of in the past, and it freaks her out that things are changing.
But it's shitty as hell for me to be bearing her worries and frustrations. Especially since we've known for 6 months (hell, longer!) that this was happening.
I asked to take two days next week to help with the furniture delivery and miscelaneous set up of the new office I'm starting (because, hello, yes I need to do that. I'm going to be the office manager, I absolutely need to make sure we have coffee service and a working printer before the place opens up) and was told, "What? Why!? You don't need to do that, what are you going to do, twiddle your thumbs? There aren't even phones yet." Nothing I say has much effect; she thinks, super clearly, that I'm somehow abandining my current responsibilities in a ball of fire to go play doll house. As if I need a landline phone to do work when I have a cell phone, a laptop, and a wi-fi hotspot.
It sucks, because until this week, I had a great relationship with my supervisor, and I was super looking forward to being on a more peer level with her. Now I'm 90% convinced that after I leave, everything that goes wrong at that location will become "my fault" because I left.
:(
I'm just really frustrated and saddend by the whole thing. I want to be able to open up a new chapter of my working life, and instead I'm concentrating a ton of my energy on not pissing her off further.
/venting
In much happier news, I'm going to see Age of Ultron tonight! I'm apparently stupid/brave enough to try a midnight showing even though I'm usually in bed before ten, lol.
This week has been rough, this day has been rougher yet. :/ My last day at my current position within the company (and at that location) is a week from tomorrow, and I feel like the closer it gets, the farther away I get from the safety of the eye of the storm.
My immediate supervisor is under enormous stress at work from her boss, the building we just moved into is still in shamles and a mess and a half mostly because one of the people we hired recently isn't showing as much promise as we'd hoped and doesn't have much initiatve at all, and even though we essentially hired two people to replace me instead of one, she's worried I'm going to leave a gaping hole in the company when I shift. Which is kinda bullshit. I have trained my replacement, who has been doing my job on her own for the last month while I do stuff for my new position.
And I get it. I do. Shit's going down and we've been the dynamic duo of getting it taken care of in the past, and it freaks her out that things are changing.
But it's shitty as hell for me to be bearing her worries and frustrations. Especially since we've known for 6 months (hell, longer!) that this was happening.
I asked to take two days next week to help with the furniture delivery and miscelaneous set up of the new office I'm starting (because, hello, yes I need to do that. I'm going to be the office manager, I absolutely need to make sure we have coffee service and a working printer before the place opens up) and was told, "What? Why!? You don't need to do that, what are you going to do, twiddle your thumbs? There aren't even phones yet." Nothing I say has much effect; she thinks, super clearly, that I'm somehow abandining my current responsibilities in a ball of fire to go play doll house. As if I need a landline phone to do work when I have a cell phone, a laptop, and a wi-fi hotspot.
It sucks, because until this week, I had a great relationship with my supervisor, and I was super looking forward to being on a more peer level with her. Now I'm 90% convinced that after I leave, everything that goes wrong at that location will become "my fault" because I left.
:(
I'm just really frustrated and saddend by the whole thing. I want to be able to open up a new chapter of my working life, and instead I'm concentrating a ton of my energy on not pissing her off further.
/venting
In much happier news, I'm going to see Age of Ultron tonight! I'm apparently stupid/brave enough to try a midnight showing even though I'm usually in bed before ten, lol.