Took a while but I got my new contract offer, with most of my important demands met. Really happy about it, I feel I've really found my groove lately. People are appreciative, things are moving and getting done thanks to my poking the right people at the right moments - and i'm mostly working 4 day weeks and enjoying crazy weekends with friends. I hope this will last for a bit :) My boss has been occupied and then on vacation for the last 2 months, came back last week and was mostly catching up with his stuff. So it was a bit rough yesterday when he started getting involved in my business with feedback and comments. Nothing bad, I'm just kind of not used to it anymore by now. I haven't taken any vacations since I've started so I think it's time to consider some winter plans. Mexico seems really appealing right now, for somewhere around February... Not being able to take extended vacations is probably what bugs me the most about having a "real" job - but with the pandemic the fomo was manageable. I don't know how well i'll be able to hold once everything opens up.
I did two tournament games this weekend, won both. Humility has its time and place, but I've outgrown this class. It's plain disrespectful for me to keep clogging those games. Gotta mobilize, advance, and move forward. Enough stalling. I found a cheap place to practice the piano, they also have heaps of other instruments and the owners are this super-enthusiastic retiree couple. They offer lessons on pretty much everything they have around, too. I also went out on two dates, though neither was nearly as exciting. I choose to believe it says more about them than me, but all things considered, it's probably good I finally went out for something beyond work or groceries nonetheless.
Zillow eating shit makes me happy. Losing my passport and having to go through government tedium, not so much. You wanna talk about inefficiencies that costs me a lot of money, and a lot of time? Because holy shit. Outside of that I guess things are good. This job is going well but my old boss got a major promotion at a new place and is offering a Director title that would offer probably at least $50k more salary so I'm all what do I doooooooooooo.
I gave my boss my resignation two and a half weeks ago, and he's yet to reassign any of my projects. This is a perfect example of his leadership.
My boss left a month ago. He and I put together a program that brings in $1m/year for the next 5 years. Nobody has touched it since he left. It is pretty much forgotten now. We are trained to think we are so important and critical to the operation of a business, that we fail to take days off and take care of our health, to serve the corporation. And then all our hard work gets abandoned the moment we turn our attention elsewhere.
The problem he's creating is these projects don't disappear without me, they just have poor handoff resulting in overworking the remaining staff as they find themselves further behind than they need to be. Work will still get done, but staff will be less happy and customers they work with, both internal and external, will be less satisfied. It's more likely an error will occur. I don't actually blame my boss. He's trying really hard. Failing miserably, but he's trying. It's his boss that's really dropping the ball by not recognizing the failing and stepping in to coach my team lead or taking control directly.
What has his boss been doing this entire time?
All I can figure is he's assuming things are fine if he isn't hearing about it. Which is ironic because when I tell him things aren't going well he responds as if it's my issue. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." I think management as a whole figures if work is getting done that everything is fine.
Y’all, life is way too busy than it should be. I haven’t been able to sit down with my laptop and respond how I’d like to (however infrequent that usually is anyways). That said, been eating up articles left, right and center from Hubski along the way, so thanks for all the posts and comments peeps. Throwing more posts this way is my way of commenting for now it seems. Approaching 2 AM here and the home still needs cleaning up for parents to arrive over the weekend… haven’t had a clear weekend in months and now its holiday szn. What’s nuts is my brother came up 2 wknds ago (now that the whole fam is vax’d x2-3), and while reading this very post: … I get a call from my boss about a map needing a rework for a weekend flight ASAP. To be very, very clear, it was a mistake on my end, and bossman offered to do the work for me…. Which would require me driving back to my work computer anyway to e-mail the data. Chose to make a cute detour to a nice restaurant with my brother before work. But shit man. Anywho, going to take a shower before forcing shut-eye lest I vomit another comment I didn’t type out yet (loving the GenZ vs Millennials thread, so that will get bumped prob middle of next week by me). Until then, happy Friday eve, ‘ski.
Sedona, AZ was lovely. I got to see ancient petroglyphs and structures built by the native cultures at the same time Notre Dame cathedral was being built. And I got my post-trip COVID test back, negative. So managed to avoid all the shitweasels somehow. So that's good.