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Date: 02/03/12
Moving On
Bit of a strange day today.
We've got a lot of recent promotees at work, and as they'd now been as well trained as anyone in the Depratment ever gets nowadays, the time had come to slot them in to the existing teams.
Which meant that a lot of people were going to have to be moved.
I'm one of them.
I have to say that I've viewed this development with a certain degree of ambivalence. The team I've been on for nearly three and a half years has been the best I've worked on in over twenty years in the Depratment; we've had no 'moodies', no prima donnas (or post-Madonnas for that matter), we've pulled together in the face of some quite ludicrous management decisions and conduct, and we've had a bloody good laugh while doing so. So I was definitely going to miss all that.
On the other hand, as regular readers may recall (and as anyone else can see from this post), going to another team would mean the removal of a source of some stress from my life. So, on the whole, it was time to move on anyway.
Out of the eleven of us, there were only five in today (one on sick leave, three on leave, two don't work Fridays), so the atmosphere was a bit odd. I can't say that I had any strong feelings as I packed my stuff away ready to be trundled across to the other side of the building; as I said, I felt that the time was ripe.
So, my thanks and gratitude for friendship, solidarity and chuckles to (in no particular order):
ER, DP, ME (get well soon), RP, SK, PF, SJ, AC, BL & LJ; along with JP (who moved on a little while back) and BH (who moved out - special thoughts to him, because he has a major health issue too at the moment).
