Seriously. F.M.L.
It turns out that the collegium to end all collegiums was on the 10th of April, not the 20th. So on last Tuesday. When Bossette asked someone after the event, the talk I overheard was that the vote was split between keeping the library and merging it.
However, when I was looking for our anthropology department´s assistant on Friday (the 13th as the überboss pointed out later), our überboss asked to talk with me, took me to his office, closed the door and laid out that we ARE merging, during July and although they are going to talk about our jobs with the main library, it seemed that he was not that keen on fighting for us. I felt like a rug had been pulled, although I have been aware of this possibility for a long while. So... it may very well be that at the end of August, when WE have moved the library (packed it and then unpacked and re-shelved it) during the months of July and August, we are going to get sacked.
I was to have a vacation in July. Most likely that is going to be cancelled if the moving happens quickly. So... possibly no vacation this year and most likely no job for autumn.
That is just brilliant - especially considering that my Bossette-Beotch has her pension to fall back to, but I do not. And despite the circling shifts, an ogre of a she-boss and no air in the room, I will MISS this. It was a great place to work, and I am going to miss this. Damn.
The most frustrating point of this all is that I am still not SURE if there is a horrible end in sight (most likely) or not (less likely) because there is NO CERTAINTY yet. And that is the WORST thing. Ack.
Plus my dad is going to a surgery for his eye tomorrow, so feelings are running high and we all nervous wrecks. What a lovely thing to live through...
However, when I was looking for our anthropology department´s assistant on Friday (the 13th as the überboss pointed out later), our überboss asked to talk with me, took me to his office, closed the door and laid out that we ARE merging, during July and although they are going to talk about our jobs with the main library, it seemed that he was not that keen on fighting for us. I felt like a rug had been pulled, although I have been aware of this possibility for a long while. So... it may very well be that at the end of August, when WE have moved the library (packed it and then unpacked and re-shelved it) during the months of July and August, we are going to get sacked.
I was to have a vacation in July. Most likely that is going to be cancelled if the moving happens quickly. So... possibly no vacation this year and most likely no job for autumn.
That is just brilliant - especially considering that my Bossette-Beotch has her pension to fall back to, but I do not. And despite the circling shifts, an ogre of a she-boss and no air in the room, I will MISS this. It was a great place to work, and I am going to miss this. Damn.
The most frustrating point of this all is that I am still not SURE if there is a horrible end in sight (most likely) or not (less likely) because there is NO CERTAINTY yet. And that is the WORST thing. Ack.
Plus my dad is going to a surgery for his eye tomorrow, so feelings are running high and we all nervous wrecks. What a lovely thing to live through...