Yeah, I’ve got this new assignment at work. Temporary, but here’s how the conversation went with the boss.
Boss: You’ve been so good at doing X, you’re being given a development opportunity for the next six months.
Me: Well, that sounds ominous.
Boss: Yeah, what is the worst possible assignment you can imagine.
Me: Well, either being forced to go live in rural Nevada or being forced to go work in Chicken Little with Chip on Shoulder department.
Boss: Good news. You get to stay here.
Me: <headdesk>
See – its either good people, bad location, or drama filed pissy people in a good location. Apparently, my “opportunity” is to work on my people skills.
Have I mentioned that I hate people?
So…. after the first meeting where my department was insulted, ridiculed, disparraged, and basically I was told “we don’t want you, we don’t need you, and you have no value to us” I took a few days off to spend with Mom and Dad.
And it was good.
Valley of Fire Hike
PHOTO BOMB (Dad didn't even notice) - Furnace Creek Inn - Death Valley National Park
the Cowboy survives his first day long Joe & Pat Show
Ya’ll Tomorrow is another day. Today was not as bad as last week. Apparently the natives might actually be able to temporarily remove shoulder chips, but who knows? All I know is that this assignment is gonna suck ass for the first month at least.
Oh, and the other crappy parts of my job – the ones I feel balance out the FUN and COOL factors? Yeah, I’m still having to do those. I can’t even ditch one Hoover type assignment for this new Dirt Devil one.
Sigh. more later. I still has Xmas photos, and more from the last trip to ‘Mento, and then I prolly owe you a post on the Cowboy and how I’ve totally become a cliche.
1. Boo on the work stuff. Sounds nasty.
2. Looks like a great time with Mom & Dad! We don’t get to see pictures of YOU too often!
You’ll be fine, once you learn that coworkers are people too.
(people you could easily learn to loathe, but stills.)
js’kiddin. Actually, I’ve heard having mad people skillz is good for the NON-work portions of one’s life, too.
OPPORTUNITY!
The Joe & Pat Show! BAAHAHAAAAaaaaAA!!! My hubby is fortunate that he has only one parent to deal with at this point. Very unfortunate about your having to unwittingly guest star in the Schmucks At Work Show, by the way. I suppose Sean is right–it’s an opportunity to get better at dealing with los schmuckos, but I’m sure it’s an opportunity you’d be just fine to pass by. It’s like when people talk about how having cancer has given them a wonderful chance to become stronger and nicer, and I’m always like “Really, you couldn’t be stronger and nicer without the threat of imminent death breathing down your neck? What kind of douche are you?”