Interrupting the Trip Report for a moment…there will be more, but first…
Update from Real Time:
Should have more time to update and continue the trip report later this afternoon/tonight when I’m on a plane bound for Detroit (ugh) for a biz meeting tomorrow. Nothing against Detroit, but it’s just not the most fun place to go in January - especially when freezing rain and blowing snow is forecast for tomorrow when I’m trying to get back home in time for the weekend. We’ll see.
Work is insane, as I knew it would be since I’ve gotten back from Argentina. It’s like Boss wants to punish me every time I go away for more than a day. Weird. You guys, I should have checked my fucking calendar, but who schedules a meeting FIRST THING when you’re back from a vacay unless you want to be passive-aggressive? He scheduled an 8am meeting on Monday morning, which, no biggie…but I was late because I didn’t check my calendar on Friday! We NEVER have 8am Monday morning meetings.
So, Blunder #1.
Then, there was a big fire drill by the end of the day on Monday, and it was over something I haven’t been involved in since my new position, but Boss put me back on it and I struggled to catch up and guess I stumbled in my effort to figure out WTF was going on…it did not please Boss.
Blunder #2.
And yesterday Boss expressed his anger over all of it, and told me that I need to make sure the team is on board, but now it’s even harder since I’m not The Boss anymore and I HAVE to gain the support of Negative C. and others or “changes will be made”…
Scare #1.
And I overheard a conversation a little while ago about possibly losing one of our BIG projects at a BIG retailer.
Scare #2.
So, seems the celebration from my big coup from right before I went on vacation is over. Back to feeling anxious about everything again. No fun, but I had a feeling this might happen.
MUST ace this meeting tomorrow and then pull off a miracle on a project over the next month.
Can I do it????
xox,
GS
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