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wyld_dandelyon

Where's my Sideways Path to a Magic World?

Apr 04, 2011 23:35

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 ( Read more... )

politics, job search

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red_trillium April 7 2011, 09:05:43 UTC

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 April 7 2011, 22:17:58 UTC

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 April 9 2011, 21:40:06 UTC

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 April 9 2011, 23:43:46 UTC

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 ( ... )

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