It doesn't seem like 5 years
Four years, eleven months and a few days ago, I started work at the council. Today was my last day in the Audit team. I start in Finance on Monday.
My boss was in the office yesterday, but he's having a couple of days off, so that was our last day together. I will miss working with him, as we get on well together, and I know he doesn't have the same relationship with the other members of the team. The move to tne new unitary set up hasn't been easy and he's been dealt a pretty crappy hand. Our team transformation process never got going and he's been struggling with a lack of management and support, whilst trying to hold the rest of us together. We've had a lot of frank discussions recently and I know he feels as though he's been stitched up all ways round and is not a happy camper. Unless we can find a way to move him into Finance, I'm pretty sure he'll apply for VR. But as he's not a qualified accountant, he's not in the best position. It would be an utter shame to lose all his knowledge, experience and insight.
He bought me a bottle of gin.
I still have one audit report to finish off and my files to tidy up. My new boss has agreed to give me some time next week, and I'm hoping I can sort it all out on Monday. I had great plans to get everything done this week, but apart from having to clear my desk and sort out all the admin tasks for moving teams, we've had a few distractions with a colleague's mum being taken into hospital, being discharged and then going back in again. She has MS, so you'd think her family might have been wary of getting too close to her, but one of the grandchildren has caught Covid at college and managed to pass it around, so Gran's got it. All I can do is try to support my friend. I didn't want her to drive down to MK the other day, as she was far too upset. I would have driven her, but she managed to get hold of her otner half, who works in a prison so is not easily contactable, who came home and they went together.
My plan for the weekend involves packing up and posting 4 cardigans for 4 small boys, sewing up a cardigan for another small boy, ghen working out how I can adapt a pattern to make a set of small boy sized Marvel jumpers. And drinking gin.
In other news, I managed to crack the screen of my tablet while I was away. After claiming on my travel insurance, it is now fixed, but I need to work out how to get refunded for the cost of tne repair.
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My boss was in the office yesterday, but he's having a couple of days off, so that was our last day together. I will miss working with him, as we get on well together, and I know he doesn't have the same relationship with the other members of the team. The move to tne new unitary set up hasn't been easy and he's been dealt a pretty crappy hand. Our team transformation process never got going and he's been struggling with a lack of management and support, whilst trying to hold the rest of us together. We've had a lot of frank discussions recently and I know he feels as though he's been stitched up all ways round and is not a happy camper. Unless we can find a way to move him into Finance, I'm pretty sure he'll apply for VR. But as he's not a qualified accountant, he's not in the best position. It would be an utter shame to lose all his knowledge, experience and insight.
He bought me a bottle of gin.
I still have one audit report to finish off and my files to tidy up. My new boss has agreed to give me some time next week, and I'm hoping I can sort it all out on Monday. I had great plans to get everything done this week, but apart from having to clear my desk and sort out all the admin tasks for moving teams, we've had a few distractions with a colleague's mum being taken into hospital, being discharged and then going back in again. She has MS, so you'd think her family might have been wary of getting too close to her, but one of the grandchildren has caught Covid at college and managed to pass it around, so Gran's got it. All I can do is try to support my friend. I didn't want her to drive down to MK the other day, as she was far too upset. I would have driven her, but she managed to get hold of her otner half, who works in a prison so is not easily contactable, who came home and they went together.
My plan for the weekend involves packing up and posting 4 cardigans for 4 small boys, sewing up a cardigan for another small boy, ghen working out how I can adapt a pattern to make a set of small boy sized Marvel jumpers. And drinking gin.
In other news, I managed to crack the screen of my tablet while I was away. After claiming on my travel insurance, it is now fixed, but I need to work out how to get refunded for the cost of tne repair.
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