Time to feel like a dolt....

I just realized something. And it made me literally feel like an idiot.

For over a year now, I've been walking around thinking I've been at my job for seven and a half years. When people asked, that's what I answered - seven years, over seven years, seven and a half years, etc....

Well guess what? I'm a moron. I've been there eight and a half years.

I friggin' lost a year somewhere - at least in my head. Sigh....

All I can say is that the last two years have been VERY unlike all the ones before them - as in it's been several months in job hell. All thanks to us having a new CEO that was a tyrant-wannabe. Two years of having your buttons pushed, of setting co-workers against each other, of placating people one second and then totally dropping them and their problems the next. (Did I mention that he had "Art of War" on his bookshelf?) All the while thinking himself, and proclaiming himself our saviour all over town.

So now he's gone - been sacked actually - which is deliciously satisfying. But the longer he's gone, the more I realize what an impact he had on me and all of my co-workers. Of the pain, anguish and negativity he brought to us every damn day. I feel like I'm shell shocked sometimes.

And now so damn happy he's gone. But then there's no telling what the new CEO will be like.... God above, please don't let it be someone like him - or worse.

So - 8 1/2 years. How the heck could I forget that? sigh....

xof

Time to feel like a dolt....

I just realized something. And it made me literally feel like an idiot.

For over a year now, I've been walking around thinking I've been at my job for seven and a half years. When people asked, that's what I answered - seven years, over seven years, seven and a half years, etc....

Well guess what? I'm a moron. I've been there eight and a half years.

I friggin' lost a year somewhere - at least in my head. Sigh....

All I can say is that the last two years have been VERY unlike all the ones before them - as in it's been several months in job hell. All thanks to us having a new CEO that was a tyrant-wannabe. Two years of having your buttons pushed, of setting co-workers against each other, of placating people one second and then totally dropping them and their problems the next. (Did I mention that he had "Art of War" on his bookshelf?) All the while thinking himself, and proclaiming himself our saviour all over town.

So now he's gone - been sacked actually - which is deliciously satisfying. But the longer he's gone, the more I realize what an impact he had on me and all of my co-workers. Of the pain, anguish and negativity he brought to us every damn day. I feel like I'm shell shocked sometimes.

And now so damn happy he's gone. But then there's no telling what the new CEO will be like.... God above, please don't let it be someone like him - or worse.

So - 8 1/2 years. How the heck could I forget that? sigh....

xof