"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation." -- Gail Sheehy
I left work early on Tuesday with a migraine. I knew it was going to be a bad one when it started. It turned out to be the worst I've had in a long time. I stayed home yesterday, too. It usually takes a day to get myself back together.
But today at work wasn't so bad. A month ago my manager told me that they (the directors) would probably take about five people from our part of Document Management to another (I'll call it B-C) department within Doc. Management. It is a little more money, but I've never wanted to go there. None of the other Doc. Management depts. have the type of close-knit team we have. All of our departments will be gone by June, anyway, so you'd think it wouldn't really matter, but it does. I like where I am and what I do and I don't want to deal with a change right now. We've already had to deal with a lot of changes within our team leading up to the big outsourcing in June, so I'm going to be selfish about it.
I told C (my manager) that I did not want to go. S (our operations expert) told me today that we are losing five of the new people to BC. I said, "Good. I'm glad I didn't come back to find out I'd been transferred." And she said, "They wanted to. We had to really fight to keep you."
I guess that's a compliment, but I really just want to vegetate in OCR. Yes, I'm denying that change, but I've dealt pretty well with change this past year and I've been quite the cheerleader for the department, trying to keep everyone's spirits up, so I'm going to be selfish, dig in my heels and fight to stay where I am!!!
After all we'll be losing three of our veteran team members at the end of January, anyway. If they took me there'd only be a couple of us old guys left!
Oh well, enough of that.
Sunday (or was it Monday?) the temperature was in the mid-seventies here and we had thunderstorms and tornados in our area. We had marble-sized hail here and they had golf-ball-sized hail a little South of us. Yesterday the high was in the thirties! The weather change is probably what brought on my migraine.
Well, I think I'll try to catch up on alerts and maybe make an entry in my other journal. More later.
2 comments:
My mother had those headaches and my brother does so I feel for you. You dig your heels in and do what you feel is neccesary to make you happy on your job. Paula
Strange weather indeed! It was 72 here yesterday, but supposed to be 52 today. Of course, that will last two days then it's back to the 70's. I hope your head is feeling better. JB had a migraine the other day as well. He still had the "shadow" headache yesterday. Tis the season, huh? ;o)
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