A Mention of Work...

In a vague, not likely to cost me my job, a la Delta Airlines or Washington intern girl kind of way LOL.



OK, so five of the ten temps on our floor, including myself, got converted to permanent, which should go through in a month or two - has to go to the temp agency and legal and human resources and all sorts of crap before I can actually attach my signature LOL. So it's all well and good from my point of view - whether I want to STAY in this city is a completely different question, but there you go - but SW didn't get a possie. Which was a surprise to everyone, she's a good worker, conscientious (I think a bit overly so, LOL what's the point on tracking down a solution for half an hour when it's not our customer segment? Transfer them, talk a bit to the next consultant, have a nice day is my attitude, not on the phones to extend our product knowledge, I am sure there will be training for that), and when the names of the successful convertees came out, I thought, well, I guess they are doing a good job then.



Since I got back from hols, SW has been quiet towards me, the hellos in the corridors being about it. I didn't want to push it so things would repair in their own time I was thinking. But bumped into her at the train station last night and caught the same train home, which was nice - she had been out drinking with some workmates, KB2 was with her on the train platform, while I had been having my last 6.30 finish of the shift - will be good getting an 8.30 start shift for the next four weeks, starting at 10.30 has seemed a bit twilight zone at times.



Anyways, back to the convo I had with SW (and to a lesser extent, KB2) - SW is bitter about the whole thing, but not towards myself or AD or TW - the ones she is OK with by name LOL - but KW sits across from her in the office, and got a permanent position, and SW thinks even the written part of her application would have blown that girl's one away. And here I was thinking that it was a slight surprise that KW got a job, but she must have deserved it and been a hard worker - what it is though, is that the team leader's assessment counts for a helluva lot of the actual weighting I am sure, and although their team leader is a nice enough bloke, he does have shall we say a certain taste in staff LOL. And that's all I'm going to say to still be in that vagueish can't sack me even if you do decipher the initials kind of way. They are always advertising though, but whether SW will be there in another six months hmm.



Oh, and I don't think I particularly play office politics or anything, but a conversation I had with JC the other day - the staff member who used to be a team leader but isn't at the moment came into our team meeting for us to air some rumours and for her to either confirm or deny it. I mentioned this to JC, who isn't in my particular team, and she said, oh was she (ex team leader) doing her fake Telstra friendly thing while only putting her nose into everything - hmm, quite a bitter outburst LOL. I can't remember what I said in reply, but I can see that SB likes to know a bit about everything, and yes, of course, it's a business, there is a level of fake niceness all over the place for a building with 400 people in it to survive, but it doesn't bother me. And leading on from that thought was am I just floating through the whole thing, with hardly any issues that bug me, or am I good at playing office politics? I mean, this is my fourth large office based employer over the past hmm twelve years, and my bosses have always, mostly, loved me LOL - in that WORKPLACE way, not in that perverted fantasy one LOL - I dunno, I just don't go out of my way at work to cause trouble.



I don't suck up either though - eh, I don't know what it is. Anyways, the rumours that SB was in our meeting to clarify revolved around the fact that after the temps got permanentized, the next what shall we change thought in senior management is that they are cutting two team leaders out of approximately twelve in my section, one of about six or so I think in the other side of the business unit. Apparently there isn't a business case for the staff to manager ratio we currently have at the moment, so on Wednesday the team leaders were called into a meeting and said two of you have to go. Reapply for their own jobs etc - lol now if we could get them on a desert island or a race around the world, and I would volunteer to be the smarmy host (well less smarmy on Amazing Race) saying you are the last team leader to arrive, or the tribe has spoken, yeah, that would be fun LOL.



But was talking to my team leader yesterday, the latest rumour going around was that one team leader was getting promoted and another had decided to jump into voluntary redundancy, so at least one (the promotion was more clear cut), maybe two of the positions will unfill themselves 'naturally'. And my boss loves me LOL, she said she can see me having a very successful career in the company, and that when I am CEO to remember her when we need to hire tea ladies LOL. I said to her I have always seen myself as more of an assistant than actual manager material, but eh, there you go...



And now that I have completely bored you, I better go and do a short sharp witty entry :) To bring back my legions of fans - or I could just blogexplode I guess :)



No, I like the witty option, will try that for a while :)

Pauly