I came home today to find that.
My 13 year old daughter was wimpering in a pillow and blanket on our reclining chair. Her class went skiing today. She and her best friend chose to go inner tube sledding instead. They collided and my daughter got a bloody nose. That plus even though my husband check marked the form that they should send her with a box lunch from the school cafeteria, they didn't, and a friend had to lend her money.
Since my daughter's school trip bus came back later than expected, she missed her usual school bus home and had to take the "after school activities" school bus home. So my 8 year old son came home to an empty, locked house. Luckily, we're lazy and had left a back door unlocked.
My husband came home whining about recent events at work and threatening to quit! After 18 months of being laid off, he wants to quit over what I consider to be something relatively minor. I forbid it, like an angry battle ax wife from an Andy Capp cartoon. Too bad I didn't hit him with a rolling pin.
This morning I gave an approximately 1 hour presentation to 80 clients, visiting our office, regarding Resource Based Relative Value Units, RBRVS, and it's uses in our software. It went better than I expected. Then the sales department asked me if I would go to Buffalo Minnesota with them next Thursday to demonstrate proper use of our appointment scheduling product. I said yes. I love stuff like that.
About 2 weeks ago, with little warning to us, our new big boss emailed everyone a new organization chart. I was flattered to see that now my 6 closest coworkers report to me, on that chart. But disappointed to see that my own boss was re-assigned to be the manager of a team of people we all know are scheduled to be let go in September. We want her for our team, and worried what would happen to her when everyone who reports to her gets let go!
And I worred, without her doing all the bureaucratic work and all the managment meetings for our team, that would mean I'd have to do all that, and would not be available to answer all the technical questions everyone else on the team has. For the last year, 4 of them reported to me, so I was part of the leadership team, but my own boss took care of most of the management meetings, reporting, lengthy angry customer conference calls, and all that time consuming stuff, and that left me free to train new people and take over the complicated technical problems people rely on me for.
So my boss and I called the new manager with our concerns. And long story short, she created a new organization chart on which no one reports to me, we get to keep our boss on our team, and I'm listed as reporting to her, along with my six co workers and a few other people. I have mixed emotions about it since it looks like a demotion on paper, after all I am entirely removed from the row of managers, but I still get paid the same, and I think I'll be happier doing my job than being a people manager all day. And we all agreed in a brief department meeting this afternoon, that we'll all just keep doing our usual work flow, and that this basically puts us back to the way we were before this started, except this September, our annual review month, I won't do anyone's reviews. So, it's kind of good news bad news. My husband was appalled that I didn't just take the management position, for the sake of my resume. It wouldn't have paid differently, that I know of. And it would have taken me away from most of the job duties that I actually enjoy doing. Plus, honestly I don't know how I would manage that department without "me" out there, with my 9 1/2 years of experience, helping with their problems all the time.
At the meeting today, one of the attendees was a lady I used to sit next to, in 1989, at one of my first jobs right out of college, at Colon and Rectal Surgery Associates. The only co worker there that I had acually liked, and the only one with the decency to actually attend my wedding. I got to eat lunch with her and have a laugh. That was 18 years ago, and I only lasted 9 months. It was funny all the miserable details we could both still remember! And she still looks the same!
Oh, well it's 7:30, and I should go run.
I'm editing this later to say when I was out running with my dog tonight, I saw a huge shooting star fall across the sky. Its flames were so vivid, I listened for the sound of a plane crash, just in case I was mistaken! It was really beautiful and made me feel stupid for worrying about something like an org-chart or Relative Value Units.
My 13 year old daughter was wimpering in a pillow and blanket on our reclining chair. Her class went skiing today. She and her best friend chose to go inner tube sledding instead. They collided and my daughter got a bloody nose. That plus even though my husband check marked the form that they should send her with a box lunch from the school cafeteria, they didn't, and a friend had to lend her money.
Since my daughter's school trip bus came back later than expected, she missed her usual school bus home and had to take the "after school activities" school bus home. So my 8 year old son came home to an empty, locked house. Luckily, we're lazy and had left a back door unlocked.
My husband came home whining about recent events at work and threatening to quit! After 18 months of being laid off, he wants to quit over what I consider to be something relatively minor. I forbid it, like an angry battle ax wife from an Andy Capp cartoon. Too bad I didn't hit him with a rolling pin.
This morning I gave an approximately 1 hour presentation to 80 clients, visiting our office, regarding Resource Based Relative Value Units, RBRVS, and it's uses in our software. It went better than I expected. Then the sales department asked me if I would go to Buffalo Minnesota with them next Thursday to demonstrate proper use of our appointment scheduling product. I said yes. I love stuff like that.
About 2 weeks ago, with little warning to us, our new big boss emailed everyone a new organization chart. I was flattered to see that now my 6 closest coworkers report to me, on that chart. But disappointed to see that my own boss was re-assigned to be the manager of a team of people we all know are scheduled to be let go in September. We want her for our team, and worried what would happen to her when everyone who reports to her gets let go!
And I worred, without her doing all the bureaucratic work and all the managment meetings for our team, that would mean I'd have to do all that, and would not be available to answer all the technical questions everyone else on the team has. For the last year, 4 of them reported to me, so I was part of the leadership team, but my own boss took care of most of the management meetings, reporting, lengthy angry customer conference calls, and all that time consuming stuff, and that left me free to train new people and take over the complicated technical problems people rely on me for.
So my boss and I called the new manager with our concerns. And long story short, she created a new organization chart on which no one reports to me, we get to keep our boss on our team, and I'm listed as reporting to her, along with my six co workers and a few other people. I have mixed emotions about it since it looks like a demotion on paper, after all I am entirely removed from the row of managers, but I still get paid the same, and I think I'll be happier doing my job than being a people manager all day. And we all agreed in a brief department meeting this afternoon, that we'll all just keep doing our usual work flow, and that this basically puts us back to the way we were before this started, except this September, our annual review month, I won't do anyone's reviews. So, it's kind of good news bad news. My husband was appalled that I didn't just take the management position, for the sake of my resume. It wouldn't have paid differently, that I know of. And it would have taken me away from most of the job duties that I actually enjoy doing. Plus, honestly I don't know how I would manage that department without "me" out there, with my 9 1/2 years of experience, helping with their problems all the time.
At the meeting today, one of the attendees was a lady I used to sit next to, in 1989, at one of my first jobs right out of college, at Colon and Rectal Surgery Associates. The only co worker there that I had acually liked, and the only one with the decency to actually attend my wedding. I got to eat lunch with her and have a laugh. That was 18 years ago, and I only lasted 9 months. It was funny all the miserable details we could both still remember! And she still looks the same!
Oh, well it's 7:30, and I should go run.
I'm editing this later to say when I was out running with my dog tonight, I saw a huge shooting star fall across the sky. Its flames were so vivid, I listened for the sound of a plane crash, just in case I was mistaken! It was really beautiful and made me feel stupid for worrying about something like an org-chart or Relative Value Units.
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