Life in flux *EDIT* in OD

That’s my situation at work at the moment.

To wit: I’m definitely moving to a different department, I’m just not sure where.

Let me explain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up.

Beginning of last week, an internal email went round stating that there were a couple of jobs going in the quality department for my department. Quality seem to live by strange and esoteric rules, as do some of the decisions they make. Hence the reason I tend to be snarky and sarcastic towards them.

Now, I’m trying to move forward at work, hence the reason I apply for just about everything going. That, combined with the fact that if I’m a member of the quality team they can’t piss me off, led me to apply. (The extra £2,000 a year doesn’t hurt either)

The closing date for applications was yesterday, but obviously we weren’t in then. (Who decided to close applications on a fucking bank holiday? Oh, that’s right, my work, shock.) So I got my application n on Friday, giving me a convenient excuse for missing the bloody scavenger hunt.

There’s a new department at work called mission which launched today, meaning free food. They are looking for 10 people to move from my department to there, back office thankfully. It will mean weekends and some late shifts, but that doesn’t bother me, to be honest. It scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. (First it is slightly cheaper…) This has been in the planning for just under a year (we first heard of it about redundancy time) so at least it won’t be changing constantly like my department. Plus, my current contract extension runs out at the end of the year, this one would guarantee me work till March next year.

Except, the quality job. I explained the situation to my team leader, who explained it to my ops manager. The agreement is that they’ll keep asking if I’ve been shortlisted for the quality job and, if not, I’ll move to mission.

So it’s pretty much guaranteed that I’ll be moving. Though, with mission being Barclaycard, hopefully they won’t leave me without systems for ages.

Spent the weekend doing less than I planned to, as a friend is back in town for a few days looking at wedding venues. They’re not getting married till July 2015 (when there’s no football on) but, still. I did manage to squeeze in some overtime as well, got quite a lot of cases worked (get paid per case, not per hour) which is a bit of a surprise despite the cases being the easiest type to work.

Also watched Doctor Who at the Proms yesterday. I downloaded it as an MP3 (which reminds me, need to cut that into individual tracks, rather than one long one) and listened to it at work, so I know what got cut and understand that had to happen.

Nevertheless, it was still disappointing that one of the things cut was Song for Fifty, the gorgeous, epic song written by Murray Gold especially for the 50th anniversary, especially for the Prom. No idea why they cut it so, if you did watch the programme, here it is. And if you didn’t, listen anyway, it’s amazing.

Will

*EDIT*

I’m definitely moving to Mission. And then possibly moving back to BOI in the quality department.

Which I was kinda hoping to avoid, but I see the logic. It could take HR as long to decide about the quality position that I could lose both.

Will