I can’t sleep. My mind is racing about work. I feel like my brain is trying to manifest another promotion offer. We haven’t had a Programs Director since January. If that position opens up, I will throw my hat in the ring. My mind is cooking up so many ideas that will never matter. On Friday, we have a mandatory staff function for the whole organization. Maybe I will speak up.
My mind is racing about work because of the positive feedback I received. My biggest fan is the Assistant Director who got everybody on topside gassed up about me in a closed meeting. The Youth Manager told me that.
Amber is new in her coordinator role and they just hired someone for her team and they were both in my office today looking for advice on how to grow their program. How to polish it up like mine. That is when I thought of the Programs Director vacancy.
They offered me Communications Director, I wasn’t interested. Turning it down earned me a lot of respect that I didn’t know about. Programs Director would be more in alignment for me. I would work with developing all of the programs. Helping them to win. I would miss the frontline work but I would jump in on programs all the time.
It’s 3 AM, I am wide awake. This is going to be a problem. I am aiming to volunteer at 10 before my 1-9 shift today. We take the kids boxing in the evening which is why I have a wonky shift. We are taking the new kids. My coordinator wants to open it up and double our participants so he can spiel them about respecting our spaces. One of them stole change from my car.
On that note, I had a one-on-one with a participant yesterday. He told me that another participant stabbed him with a toothpick. He told my coordinator who didn’t tell me this. This is assault buddy. We need to report the incident and take whatever action is necessary. We just lost a coordinator who failed to manage an incident between his participants.
Speaking of my coordinator, the tension was so thick yesterday. I couldn’t even look at him. We will talk it out eventually. I’m just not in the headspace to do so. However, now that head office has him under a lens and is coming to talk to him about being accountable to his role, maybe I will just talk to him today. They see that I am running the show and they want him to step up.
Anyway, now that I aired this out maybe I will fall back asleep. I have no business being up this early. I already all of my gym days this week. Otherwise I would just go do that.
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