2025 is keeping me on my toes
Holiday break was quiet which should have been my signal that 2025 was going to be quite the adventure. So far when we got back yesterday, Elaine found out that the person that had accepted her job offer backed out since her current place offered her more money. She was supposed to start the day after MLK day so it was annoying.
So after a while, I brought up that while we're in the in-between stage waiting for a new director, why don't we do what we've been talking about for years and merge our offices. We'd previously talked about finding a way to get me an upgrade so let's merge bits of the job she was advertising with what I do now and see about leveling me up. And at the same time, we should see what else we need done (we are INSANELY understaffed and have been for years) and put together job listings for a couple of positions to report to me and to her.
Elaine thought that was a good idea so we're brainstorming and yesterday she even talked to the head of HR and the head of the business/budget office (who he's in charge of HR too) about looking for support for my upgrade and for our reorganization. We're also going to try to get me a 10-15% raise which would be frikkin awesome since I've been hovering at the midpoint of my salary for over a decade.
So that's the positive. Then at 1am this morning, we had the negative. JonJon had been doing just fine and then he didn't finish his previous meal which wasn't surprising since he'd eaten fine before that. Well at 1, he hopped out from his carrier where he was sleeping and barfed up a lot. Then he went to the litterbox and put a squishy deposit from the other end. Poor dude! I don't know what prompted that. Nothing new to eat, he had plenty of energy before that. He spent at least an hour after that laying in my lap being kind of miserable. We both slept after that until about 6ish. He got me up but didn't want food and spent another 45 minutes on and off in my lap. I'm at work now and he's resting on the bed next to the heater (it is chilly this morning). I'm hoping he wants food when I get home and that he's ok.
So quite the rollercoaster so far.
So after a while, I brought up that while we're in the in-between stage waiting for a new director, why don't we do what we've been talking about for years and merge our offices. We'd previously talked about finding a way to get me an upgrade so let's merge bits of the job she was advertising with what I do now and see about leveling me up. And at the same time, we should see what else we need done (we are INSANELY understaffed and have been for years) and put together job listings for a couple of positions to report to me and to her.
Elaine thought that was a good idea so we're brainstorming and yesterday she even talked to the head of HR and the head of the business/budget office (who he's in charge of HR too) about looking for support for my upgrade and for our reorganization. We're also going to try to get me a 10-15% raise which would be frikkin awesome since I've been hovering at the midpoint of my salary for over a decade.
So that's the positive. Then at 1am this morning, we had the negative. JonJon had been doing just fine and then he didn't finish his previous meal which wasn't surprising since he'd eaten fine before that. Well at 1, he hopped out from his carrier where he was sleeping and barfed up a lot. Then he went to the litterbox and put a squishy deposit from the other end. Poor dude! I don't know what prompted that. Nothing new to eat, he had plenty of energy before that. He spent at least an hour after that laying in my lap being kind of miserable. We both slept after that until about 6ish. He got me up but didn't want food and spent another 45 minutes on and off in my lap. I'm at work now and he's resting on the bed next to the heater (it is chilly this morning). I'm hoping he wants food when I get home and that he's ok.
So quite the rollercoaster so far.