Just a stress-releasing vent on a Sunny Saturday.........

Work is starting to get on my nerves.  I said I'd wait it out until the end and get my severance pay, but good grief they're really starting to get on my nerves!

I still love our department and what I do there.  I love the people I work with, but it's getting harder and harder to let things just pass over me.  I've always been able to pretty much ignore the negative, letting it just sail over the top of my head, but I'm beginning to be stressed!

My mantra right now is "Just four more months........Just four more months........Just four more months........"

I wrote back in June about what's happening at my company.  I'm now ready to move on.  When we first got the news a lot of our Document Management people left right away to find jobs outside of the company.  Others, little by little, have been taking other jobs within the company and leaving doc. man.  Some of our associates, including four from my team, will be staying with the company to perform the duties that are staying with our company instead of being given to the ourtsource company.  Our four will be leaving next month.  So our current doc. man. duties are being handled by pretty much a skeleton crew of full-time, experienced associates and an ever-changing crew of temporary associates.  Therefore we are swamped, buried, sucked down into quicksand, with work!!!  And there is absolutely no solution.  We can only do so much in a week's time.  The new people who aren't quite up to making production yet can only do so much.  But still I feel an obligation to get the work out!  Do as much as I can to serve the customer!  Focus on the Customer!  Personal Accountability for Excellence!  Integrity!

Well I did not work one bit of overtime this week.  I still came home yesterday, went to bed at 6:00 and slept for 13 hours straight!!!  Stress, I'm telling you.

I will work overtime next week.  Might as well get the extra money while it's there.  Monday we had a meeting called for all the associates, not the temps.  This hadn't been scheduled so we all were a little antsy about the topic.  Someone near me said, as we were sitting down, "Maybe they're going to tell us that "L" (the outsourcing company) is all set up to take our work and they're sending it out now instead of the end of June, and we can all go home."  And I found myself thinking, "Oh I hope so!  Give me my severance, my vacation pay and my bonus and send me on out the door!"  But it wasn't that.  They were just letting us know that because our inventories were high if we applied for and accepted another job within the company, instead of keeping us in doc. man. for 30 days they could concievably keep us for 60 days before releasing us to the other department. 

Okay.  Whatever. 

I could still go to another department within the company.  And they may still try to send me to one of the other doc. man. teams that's struggling as bad as ours to fill out my time until the end of June, but I will still fight them on that, and so will my manager.  If they're taking my job away anyway, the job that I really love with the people and on the team that I love, the least they can do is let me stay with that team until the end.  If they make me go over I'll probably just give my two weeks' notice and say to heck with the severance pay.  I probably shouldn't do that, though, should I?  Money's money.

Oh well, just needed to vent.  It's a gorgeous Saturday here in Southern Indiana.  Guess I'll try to get some relaxation out of it.  More later.