Small Miracle
My boss gave me a small miracle today. An answered prayer. But since he couldn't look me in the eye when he told me and seemed startled that I thanked him, I have to suppose he was doing so for the wrong reasons.
You see, there's this project that has caused me pain for four years. It caused the people who had it before me pain. It has been a pain for 12 years altogether.
So when he told me that he was taking it away as part of the reorganization shuffle I was relieved. I had been hoping he'd do that. Of course I feel sorry for the nice lady who is getting it but hey, all I can do is warn her of the pitfalls.
I think he was taking it away because of a certain person who I have discovered has been bad-mouthing me all over the county. See the poor thing can't understand that there are rules as a nonprofit we have to abide by and she does not think such rules should apply to her so we have never seen eye to eye. Part of my job in taking this project was to clean it up. So of course enemies were made. Heck last summer this person tried to stage a coup, threatened not just me but my boss and the other folks on the project. I told my boss then that I could not work with this person. And Lo and Behold guess who is going to be the key player in 2007? Sigh! Some people do not listen.
I can barely contain my glee!
Of course I am also wounded and miffed to think that this change is happening because things were said behind my back without my being able to refute them. I could be wrong but body language is pretty loud and the guy could not look me in the eye. That says a lot. It is also sad to think that your own supervisor will not consult you, give you the benefit of the doubt or otherwise support you in times of trouble. It's a shame when people spend so much time watching their own backs that the miss what's going on it front of them. Companies loose really good people that way. I know I'm about 1/2 out of the door.
Still, I got rid of the bane of my existence. The party can start now.
You see, there's this project that has caused me pain for four years. It caused the people who had it before me pain. It has been a pain for 12 years altogether.
So when he told me that he was taking it away as part of the reorganization shuffle I was relieved. I had been hoping he'd do that. Of course I feel sorry for the nice lady who is getting it but hey, all I can do is warn her of the pitfalls.
I think he was taking it away because of a certain person who I have discovered has been bad-mouthing me all over the county. See the poor thing can't understand that there are rules as a nonprofit we have to abide by and she does not think such rules should apply to her so we have never seen eye to eye. Part of my job in taking this project was to clean it up. So of course enemies were made. Heck last summer this person tried to stage a coup, threatened not just me but my boss and the other folks on the project. I told my boss then that I could not work with this person. And Lo and Behold guess who is going to be the key player in 2007? Sigh! Some people do not listen.
I can barely contain my glee!
Of course I am also wounded and miffed to think that this change is happening because things were said behind my back without my being able to refute them. I could be wrong but body language is pretty loud and the guy could not look me in the eye. That says a lot. It is also sad to think that your own supervisor will not consult you, give you the benefit of the doubt or otherwise support you in times of trouble. It's a shame when people spend so much time watching their own backs that the miss what's going on it front of them. Companies loose really good people that way. I know I'm about 1/2 out of the door.
Still, I got rid of the bane of my existence. The party can start now.
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