Where's my Sideways Path to a Magic World?

[wyld_dandelyon]

Just when I start getting my notifications for comments again, LJ is attacked. I've managed to load the firs page of my friendslist once today. *sigh* I miss you folks!

So, I went to a job interview today. I'm not holding my breath for the results; it's in an area of law that I have no experience in. However, the ladies I was talking to seemed

Comments

[red_trillium]

Best wishes on the job interviews. It's ridiculous how bad it is right now, especially for how long you've been looking.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you! The one interview went well, I think, but they had other people to interview, and I won't hear for a week, at least.

How are things going with your job?

[red_trillium]

The job is not going well. The Powers That Be decided to restructure our team, and that's fine, it was a long time coming to bring us in line with the rest of the area we are in. But no one seriously looked at our work that we do in depth and looked at how it would be broken into the new teams. They just decided "x work will be done by A team" in general so now the 2 of us in our new area are slammed constantly (having the change right before end of the financial year didn't help).

My manager has come up with a new idea and I think it's going to make things harder short term but I can't really say anything because then I would appear negative, not to mention that I don't have any alternatives to offer.

The only positive is that I do feel that I have support from my team leader and my manager where we are now, and our current team does try to help where they can.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Some of "appearing negative" is the language you use; you might want to tell the team leader and the manager (together or separately, whichever you think would work better in your corporate environment) that you believe these changes, while they may help in the long run, will impact the year-end work due to x, y, and z. Then tell them you wanted to discuss it with them so that together you can find ways to eliminate or reduce that impact. If you can find even a tiny suggestion or two that might help (or at least that shifts things around in a way that won't hurt) you can offer them for consideration as potential partial solutions

[red_trillium]

I wanted to say thank you for this. I can't find any alternative ways out of this bad spot, but they are hiring more and will be training more people. It's a start. But I do appreciate what you've said, it's something for me to keep in mind for the (near) future.

[wyld_dandelyon]

You're very welcome. I hope you can find something to help how you are perceived in your job, as well as to get to a position where you feel more confident that you are doing competent and efficient work. One's job is always more enjoyable when you feel you are doing good work and you are appreciated!

In the meantime, this month's Muse Fusion has started--you're welcome to stop by and leave a prompt or question or three.