My life in a handbasket

[silverthorne]

Let's see.



Boss got upset because I...fuck, I don't even know how to explain it other than my partner and I were asked to do things differently than we had been, which we'd been doing, but one thing that we were asked to do I did the old way, once, today, because it would save time on a very busy day and she didn't want to hear it that way.

So, after everything else, and being up since 2 am because my fire alarms went on the fritz abd it took til 4 to get them silenced...

I walked out.

Dumb move on my part, but it was that or tell her to shove it and get fired.

Boss over her told me to keep tag and keys until tomorrow and think it over.

So I keep them, I go, and since I had to anyway, I got food shopping for the cats, and then go get the car inspected for the year, which took time because they had to replace the tires and a few other things.

Get home, check phone, get a message from her which is "I don't know what happened, but I guess if I don't hear back from you by ten, you quit."

1) It was 11 when I got the message
2) The call was from the desk of the supervisor that had told me to go home and cool off and not quit just yet.

So I guess I know where that's going.

So...text dad (meanwhile, maintenance showed up to work on the fire alarms and did a few other things that needed doing, so at least that was a good day). Tell hjim what happened, tell hjim I'll be okay, will start job hunt tomorrow, etc.

He calls back, advises going to HR in the morning. Then hits me with the next ugly bit for the day.

Grandma is in the hospital, and things are not looking good. So he's on his way out there with all the rest of the sibs and their spouses. He'll call me when he gets in tonight.

So, yay.

So...I wait for that news.

And I go see HR tomorrow.

And then I probably start job hunting, because I highly doubt I have a job anymore.

PS: I have a migraine.

Comments

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

The update is: Still have my job.

Grandma died 11:30 Mountain time Wednesday night. Dad got there in time to see her wake up from the drugs they had her own, say hello, give her a hug from me and tell her we all loved her. He said she replied with a 'That's nice' and a smile, fell asleep again, and then that was it. She was gone about a half hour later.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad that your dad got to see his mother and convey good wishes before she passed, and that she understood them.

So the job...the HR people realize you are a valuable employee under a lot of stress, and that your immediate supervisor is being an ass?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Actually, immediate supervisor and I had a long talk and hammered some things out. She's been stressed enough to not realize what she was doing, and I was stressed enough to forget she also has my back on a lot of things (The two above her are not so...forgiving, for one).

It's honestly been an ugly time for both of us with the new company, and it doesn't help that one of the management team does'nt care as long as he doesn't have to deal with 'problems' (Our director), and the other tends to do the 'smile to you face and then play games behind your back' in order to secure her own position...and get the rest of us to infighting by making the person immediately in front of her 'happy' until she contradicts herself later by making someone else 'happy' when they go to her.

...NOt sure that makes sense, actually, but essentially, the woman is a player, and my immediate boss is forced into 'playing' too to keep her own job and yet still have to try and hold her team together at the same time. Which is...yeah, ugly and she kinda forgot that I do better if I know what's going on, even if it's only a 'stuff is happening, can't talk about it, but I promise it's not you'.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. Do you get some vacation time?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Not yet. I'm going to give Dad a chance to recover from Grandma's passing and then either go see him or have him come visit and get mobbed by cats (Since he apparently has no problems with 'visiting the kitty condo' as he puts it). I might ask for a couple of days in a few weeks just to have some defrost time, though.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

by the way, even though I have my alerts set up to email me when someone replies to my posts and entries, yours haven't been showing up for about two weeks now; I always have to look at the thread to see if you replied.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

Huh! I noticed that my alerts were coming late, but I did eventually get them. I haven't changed any of my settings, so it must be LJ.