Spreading My Wings

Have you all noticed that I haven't complained about my job here lately? Maybe it's because I take all my frustrations out on people I can reach out and touch, like my husband and co-workers. Not that I've punched them in the face or anything like that...or thought about doing it. (I'm more talking about the ones at work, honey...no need to start watching your back...yet)

Today is one of those days where I really had to control myself. I have been permanently transferred into a different department—into a place that I have never had any desire to go to. At all. Whatsoever. Period.

And nobody knew what was going on until it was all over with. Not me, not the guys who report to me, not my temporary boss on my temporary project, and not my “real” boss. It was my boss’s boss who went behind everyone’s back with no warning. Here’s the point where I have to decide whether to rant about specific asshole upper managers via the internet, lest it come back and haunt me later.

…After sitting on this post for several hours, I think I should let it be.

My reassurance about this whole ordeal is that my new bosses seem very warm and embracing. In a nutshell, they explained that the company’s top dogs got together and decided there was a very urgent, specific need for someone with my experience and knowledge in this department, and it would be great for my resume. They questioned me when they saw my jaw hot the floor after they told me this was a permanent move—and they were not happy about the lack of communication from the asshole upper manager.

I am leading the charge in revolutionizing how the company schedules and manages work on aircraft carrier overhauls. The people involved have already picked a path (a path that I know a lot about, but am very wary of—not sure it’s the right solution.) I have to finish the details and implement it in a culture that is very skeptical of change. This will be my first major undertaking without my now former boss—my mentor. I am very nervous about spreading my wings without him behind me.