Friday Night Excitement!
My exciting Friday night plans involve going to bed soon.
I had a long but really productive day at work. I didn't get two of the things on my to-do list done, but given that I had over 20 items on it AND I got a bunch of things added to it over the course of the day (as you do), I am not too disappointed.
In slightly promising news, my Director had a chat with me today about when my manager is due back from maternity leave (July 20th), and point-blank asked me what I wanted as a position inside our unit (since that's what he has control over).
So I told him I wanted to be the coordinator/facilitator for incident training and major events, and to have an active liaison role with other government communications centre. That position doesn't exist yet, but there will be a position like that in the somewhat nebulous future.
This doesn't solve our immediate problem, which is that the position won't exist by the time July 20th rolls around. Also, my Director right now only has his acting position until March 31st (although it's very likely to be extended another 6 months). BUT I politely reminded him that when Karen was doing my job, they had actually put her as acting in a Sergeant's position in our unit instead of the manager position (better pay, in order to try to entice her to stay, not that that worked).
That position is now filled, but we DO have another vacant Sergeant position, which is in Business Continuity Planning. Since I have de facto been doing the BCP (there is no one else to do it), I pointed out that there is a pretty good rationale to justify putting me in that position while we wait for the real position I want to be created. He was delighted, and said he would mention it to our DG, so I am putting that in the "win" column.
I am still going to have one foot out the door until the moment I have something in writing (and signed), because I don't have a guarantee that he won't be replaced by someone else when his acting period is up, and that new person is unlikely to try to keep me the way he really wants to. But it's really nice to be wanted for now.
In non-work news, I have decided to avail myself of the services of a professional organizer. Years of anxiety, depression, and fully unmanaged ADHD combined with my ridiculous work schedule have led to my house being enough of a shambles that it's embarrassing to have people over (pre-pandemic, anyway), and I really want to get everything cleared out and organized before KK moves in in May. I am still working 50-60 hour weeks, albeit on a much better schedule, and I am tired and overwhelmed. So having someone else there to A) hold me accountable and B) actually come up with potential solutions for my chronic disorganization, seems like a logical way to tackle my current problem. In the past I have proved to be quite good at maintaining once I have a system in place, it's just that once things go to hell they tend to stay that way. It's now been four years since I had to leave my old house because of Cruella de Froot Loops (many thanks to blackmare for that great name), and I never recovered from having to find a place, pack, and get the hell out of Dodge in such a short period of time. (Yes, I am still bitter.)
I have about nine weeks before KK is meant to move in. Ideally I'd like to have ALL of my clutter gone by then, and to bring in someone to clean all the wall to wall carpet (and maybe also fix the damaged parts of the carpet if possible) so that she can move into a clean, sanitary house, and have space to settle in and make her own. Right now, my house has so much useless clutter that there's barely room for me, let alone another person. So it's time to make space for everyone.
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I had a long but really productive day at work. I didn't get two of the things on my to-do list done, but given that I had over 20 items on it AND I got a bunch of things added to it over the course of the day (as you do), I am not too disappointed.
In slightly promising news, my Director had a chat with me today about when my manager is due back from maternity leave (July 20th), and point-blank asked me what I wanted as a position inside our unit (since that's what he has control over).
So I told him I wanted to be the coordinator/facilitator for incident training and major events, and to have an active liaison role with other government communications centre. That position doesn't exist yet, but there will be a position like that in the somewhat nebulous future.
This doesn't solve our immediate problem, which is that the position won't exist by the time July 20th rolls around. Also, my Director right now only has his acting position until March 31st (although it's very likely to be extended another 6 months). BUT I politely reminded him that when Karen was doing my job, they had actually put her as acting in a Sergeant's position in our unit instead of the manager position (better pay, in order to try to entice her to stay, not that that worked).
That position is now filled, but we DO have another vacant Sergeant position, which is in Business Continuity Planning. Since I have de facto been doing the BCP (there is no one else to do it), I pointed out that there is a pretty good rationale to justify putting me in that position while we wait for the real position I want to be created. He was delighted, and said he would mention it to our DG, so I am putting that in the "win" column.
I am still going to have one foot out the door until the moment I have something in writing (and signed), because I don't have a guarantee that he won't be replaced by someone else when his acting period is up, and that new person is unlikely to try to keep me the way he really wants to. But it's really nice to be wanted for now.
In non-work news, I have decided to avail myself of the services of a professional organizer. Years of anxiety, depression, and fully unmanaged ADHD combined with my ridiculous work schedule have led to my house being enough of a shambles that it's embarrassing to have people over (pre-pandemic, anyway), and I really want to get everything cleared out and organized before KK moves in in May. I am still working 50-60 hour weeks, albeit on a much better schedule, and I am tired and overwhelmed. So having someone else there to A) hold me accountable and B) actually come up with potential solutions for my chronic disorganization, seems like a logical way to tackle my current problem. In the past I have proved to be quite good at maintaining once I have a system in place, it's just that once things go to hell they tend to stay that way. It's now been four years since I had to leave my old house because of Cruella de Froot Loops (many thanks to blackmare for that great name), and I never recovered from having to find a place, pack, and get the hell out of Dodge in such a short period of time. (Yes, I am still bitter.)
I have about nine weeks before KK is meant to move in. Ideally I'd like to have ALL of my clutter gone by then, and to bring in someone to clean all the wall to wall carpet (and maybe also fix the damaged parts of the carpet if possible) so that she can move into a clean, sanitary house, and have space to settle in and make her own. Right now, my house has so much useless clutter that there's barely room for me, let alone another person. So it's time to make space for everyone.
This entry was originally posted at https://mousme.dreamwidth.org/1467507.html, where there are currently
comments. Feel free to comment wherever you'd like!