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[geminigirl]

I inch closer and closer to really losing it at work, and am ever more grateful that I'm departing.

Today, while I was out covering a program for another co-worker, in my inbox arrived an e-mail from our department head about job security, about how we're all aware that our grants are ending, and that he's got to make challenging decisioins and so on, but that none of us should worry too much, because he'll keep us aware of the whole process and so on, and not to cause unnecessary drama or lower staff morale by freaking out about it to other staff members, and that we'll address this more completely on Monday at our department meeting.

And included was of course "And lastly, it is unprofessional and disrespectful to use work time and work equipment to look for other jobs. Don't do it."

I'm tired of our department staff meetings which are really thinly disguised assigned time for said department head to complain about things that are going on.

I am looking forward to getting out. More than I'm willing to publically acknowledge. But much like my last relationship felt near the end, so does this. And I'm handling so much of it the same way...bottling up the larger part of what's going on, and what's bothering me.

Don't get me wrong-we do great stuff here. Sometimes the internal workings need some straightening out though.

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[fairion.livejournal.com]

When do you get to leave there?

[geminigirl]

That depends on when they decide my job should end, and what turns up job wise in New Jersey.

I do have an interviewish thing on 5/10, with an agency in New Jersey.

[quillon.livejournal.com]

I went through something similar to this, when Trader was getting ready to shut down our office, and move it to Norfolk. Officially, they told us not to do our personal business on company time, but the boss at the office told us off-the-record, that we could do whatever we needed to do to get ourselves situated once the office was going to be shut down.

Its so strange how the atmosphere of offices change when things like this happen. The same thing happened at the bank, once word of the impending merger hit the news last October. The mood of the place has nevver been the same since.

[geminigirl]

Yeah. And the thing is, I'm coming home feeling the tension, feeling all of this...right between my shoulders.

[lovingboth]

Charming :(

Someone who was working with the Dean campaign noted the point at which lots of people started to get new haircuts = job interviews coming up.

[geminigirl]

It's very much like that. I know how my techie friends felt as their companies imploded-the saving grace here is that the financial investment we have certainly doesn't measure up.

We're supposed to do one on ones next week with department head about what the plans are for each of us. Fortunately, I know I'm leaving, it's just a question of when...

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

That's just something. "Here's a lot of vague stuff that you shouldn't freak out about, and you *probably* won't be fired, but just in case you're scared that you will be, don't expect support from us."

Yeesh. Time to go, even if you weren't all ready planning on it.