Since I last posted I've been 'back' at work again. Working from home, but in my 'proper job'. I'm actually only doing 50% hours this month, the rest is on furlough again. I suspect it's going to be the last few days I actually do something in my current job.
I've had such a long time to get my head around things and it's been such a strange year, it's strange that it doesn't feel strange.
I have found that I've got back into the swing of things reasonably quickly. Except for picking up phone calls. All our calls at work are done through the computer using Skype or MS Teams. Every time somebody calls me I'm thrashing around on my laptop trying to work out how to pick the call up. I haven't succeeded yet.
So I'm working on my handover. My team are amazing and I don't want to leave them in the lurch. That said, I don't know what the future holds and obviously they felt my role was replaceable or I wouldn't have been made redundant. So probably everything I'm doing will end up in the bin. Who knows!
I'm an army kid (or was a long time ago) so I find it very easy to put the past behind me and move on. As a result of this I really haven't had a single moment of sadness that I'm leaving the role. Admittedly with things in the world as they are at the moment I've had many many moments of abject fear about what the future holds, but as I work(ed) in the travel industry this would be exactly the same even if I hadn't been made redundant.
I dare say that I'll stay in touch with most of the people that I've grown close to at work, but again I don't know. Goes back to being an army kid - I got used to building close relationships quickly and then just walking away, closing the door and starting a new life.
This came with its own problems - walking away meant you could walk away from all those terrible mistakes you'd made (and trust me my life is full of them). When we settled I had a major learning curve - that if you didn't move all the time you had to live with your mistakes. It's actually a lesson I've never learnt properly. I have a knack of p'ing people off - I never know why and I do such a good job of it the people stop talking to me and hence I never will find out what I did and can't learn from it.
I think it says a lot that I just say 'hey ho' - maybe that's the problem! Hmmm I'll reflect on that for at least 20 seconds before I move on.
Anyway, gottago - some of us have a job to go to you know..... (for now).
Oh hang on - I forgot - yesterday we went to my favorite restaurant locally - The Gingerman - gosh I love it there. I had to cancel a table when we went into lockdown back in the spring. It was our first chance to go back. It felt amazing to do something that didn't feel like it was pulled together with sticky backed plastic, a wing and a prayer. Hats off to them for making it feel normal - despite the fact they were wearing masks. Can't wait until my next visit - just need to look down the back of the sofa for some spare cash.....
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