Monday morning and I’m calling it my first “official” day of Funemployment!
I don’t even know where to start.
I went to the office over the weekend to collect all of my personal stuff (nine years worth of stuff - trinkets, gifts from work friends, photos) and I ended up helping clean out my whole office area because Boss was there to help. I have almost zero beef with her for a couple of reasons: (1) it wasn’t her decision. She apologized profusely in a few texts I received from her over the weekend and noted that she won’t even have this part of the business anymore. In fact, my area of responsibility got moved over to Golden Boy’s area. Do you remember him? He’s the one who always took credit for my work back in the day. We’ve been re-org’d a few times since then, but once a golden boy, always a golden boy, I guess. And (2), she’s (Boss is) genuinely a good person, was extremely gentle with me during my cancer treatment and helped me out tremendously. She even offered a letter of recommendation and told me that the head of HR wants to give me a positive letter or recommendation as well.
Stayed for three hours! That was kind of overkill, but I did want to leave things clean. A clean break, I guess? I don’t know. I didn’t feel bad about it.
Over the weekend I also messaged with a guy I used to travel with - mainly while I was in China. He was forced into retirement last year by the same folks who pushed me out. He had a copy of the organizational letter for my part of the business and asked me if I wanted to see it. I said yes out of morbid curiosity.
Looks like my official job was “eliminated” - really it was just somewhat changed and it is under Golden Boy now, but the person who will be filling that sort-of different (but not really) spot is in NYC and likely won’t move here. I don’t know how I feel about that. Her credentials seem more impressive than mine, but what I do know is that there is a LOT of unfinished business and it is an incredibly crucial time of year right now.
I will likely get blamed for the disaster that will happen due to the negligence of Support Girl who is clueless (!!!). But of course, that’s what happens when you leave a company. UGH. I kind of cringe to think about how things will fall apart, but then I can’t worry about it, can I? They didn’t think about any of that when they were pushing me out the door.
There’s so much more, but it’s work-y and boring and it’s Monday morning of a new week and time to move on.
I have a couple of questions about my severance so I have to get back with HR on those questions and get all signed up for COBRA so need to take care of all that today, but other than that I need to start formulating my plan for next steps.
I hate being here, but then again, I feel a sense of relief…somehow?
GS
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