Dynamics

Our office is a totally different place today than it was a week and a helf ago. Since that time, Chris, the old director left and Tom, the new guy, took over. Tom is coming in from a very important job with lots of people working for him. Now he’s in charge of 15 to 20 guys. And even though this job is a promotion for him, it’s a totally different kind of responsibility. We’re staff/admin guys. Paper pushers, bean counters, whatever you want to call us. Most of us have been in the company long enough to have gone around the block a time or two and it takes a different kind of managing to deal with people like us. Even though Tom has been in the company a LOT longer than I have, I don’t think that he’s picked up on this yet. There have been a couple of uncomfortable moments over the past week to make me want to hide.

And I’ve been hiding. I’ve just kept my head down and did my work and try not to draw any attention to my office. Mike Ashley and I are some of the junior members in the office, so when the scut work gets called on to do, we usually do it. And I don’t mind being a team member, but I don’t want to get stuck with all the b.s. work just because I have a less years in than someone else. What? Is my actually job, my duties and responsibilities, less important because of how long I’ve been in this job? B.S! I talked to Chip about it and was calm and we talked through it. Mostly I needed to vent. Don’t come looking to my office whenever you need a not taker or a slide turner. Not unless you’ve got five broken fingers.

Lunch and dinner were both really good today! Lunch was prime rib, baked mashed potatoes, dressing and salad. The dressing wasn’t as good as Sara’s, but the rest of the meal was fantastic. Dinner was Lasagna and it was also fantastic. So as far as meals go, we were two for two today!

Sara told me that she got the ol’ heave-ho from Lake Forest this week. Thanks for working, if you want to keep working, you’re going to have to re-apply for your job. Since we were getting ready to move to Washington, it really doesn’t break my heart, but I’m sure there were a lot of other teachers who still need jobs. Well, Sara still needs a job, but she was going to quit Lake Forest anyway.

I tried calling Sara and the kiddos, but there was nobody home. I’ll try again tomorrow. Skype was sounding pretty funny at the time. Not sure how the connection would have been. Anyway. Time for bed. Good night.