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got laid off - HIRED!!!
Front-Ranger:
Yee-haw, friend! Great to hear!
ZK:
Thats really fantastic news. Congrats
Meryl:
Belated congratulations on your successful job hunt, Del!
delalluvia:
Thanks!!!
Things are going swimmingly right now. ;D My bosses love me and I seem to be adapting and I am catching on quite rapidly.
However one thing that I failed to take into account. :P
I'm used to administrating to an 'entity' if you will - a client, a portfolio - not a person.
So instead of just keeping the client happy and making my boss happy, now not only do I have to make my bosses happy, I also have to make happy the two people whom I support.
While they are not my bosses, their opinions carry a lot of weight and if they don't like me or think me incompetent, nothing my administrative bosses think counts, ya know?
Before, if I mastered the work, I could be certain 99% of the time, that my position was secure.
Not so now. Not only do I have to master the work, I also have to deal with the personality quirks of the two people I'll be supporting.
I've met one of them. We had a two hour lunch and got along famously. I like him and he seems to like and be impressed by me and he is someone I understand and can work with.
The other person has been out of the office on business.
She's the one I really thought I'd like and get along with.
She's dropped in several times and went out of her way to come greet me and give me hugs of welcome ;D - and 98% of the people I've met tell me what a wonderful, quirky just neat person she is.
The other 2% tell me how changeable she is, how much she desires to draw people into a personality cult and how she constantly changes her mind, her dates and forgets that she did, so much so, that she blames her administrator and scheduler for goofing her up.
I've been warned not to be 'drawn in' by her.
:P :-\
Well, I'm going to just have to find out for myself, and try to keep a professional distance between us whether she like this or not.
Different office, different line of work, different issues.
Lynne:
Del - I think it's super that things are starting off so well for you! I could not be happier. :-* :-*
There's always going to be office politics and personalities to contend with. You're definitely doing the right thing by the 'wait and see' attitude about the woman others have said is difficult.
Best of luck that things keep going in the right direction!
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