I'm worried about my boss as he's taking a lot of this on his shoulders. He's not been around for about a week and I'm worried that it's all got on top of him. He's a great person, I have all the respect in the world for him and very much hope he's ok. Watch this space.
I'm an obtuse goose and at times like this - for some reason I cannot explain - I dig my heels in and hunker down. I'm much more likely to leave a job when things are going well, I guess because there isn't a challenge. However, when the shit hits the fan I'm like a limpet.
This has worked very well over the years. I've been in roles when a new manager hasn't taken to me and they've done what they can to make my life miserable - or as I call it - trying to manage me out of the business. I like life to be on my terms - so on these occassions I've dug my heels in and dodged the bullets in a way that the cast of the Matrix would be proud.
There's a chinese proverb somebody once told me 'If you stand by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by'. Now as somebody whose been around for MANY MANY years I can tell you that this has so far proved to be 100% true. In the event that a new manager took against me and tried to make my life miserable whilst I dodged bullets - in every single event of this the manager has done something wrong and ended up being sacked.
I promise it's nothing to do with me - I've never done anything to push them out the door. I like to think it's because I'm perfect and amazing and they....... weren't! I mean, who couldn't think I was awesome.........
But just to reiterate, current boss is great. One of the reasons I accepted the role was because I looked forward to being managed by him. A lovely gentle man who is extremely knowledgeable. I learn something new from him every day. Unfortunately I'm not sure that 'gentle' is necessarily an easy place to be in my working environment.
As I have the hide of a rhino, batfink wings of steel and am hard as nails the workplace doesn't impact me in quite the same way. A year ago I'd have gone on to AI to request an image of a woman who has the hide of a rhino, batfink wings of steel and who is as hard as nails, who was dodging a bullet in the style of Matrix - but now I'm aware how much energy this uses and so I'm afraid you're going to have to go old school and use your imagination (remember that?). Let's attempt to save this amazing planet.
I managed to escape a lot of the politics last week because I was on a 3 day training session. My brain is so strange. A 3 day training session in a classroom would finish me off, I'd not remember anything I'd be shattered and overwhelmed and feel like I was being held hostage. But stick that same session online and I'm right as rain.
Don't get me wrong, by the end of it I was shattered, but I learnt lots and found it really interesting. It was about Neurodivergence in the workplace, I was there to make sure that the work my team did was suitable for as many people as possible. This is something we can do easily with a few tweaks (I believe anyway, time will tell).
I learnt a lot about different people - but let's be honest I also learnt a lot about me. I was already aware that I have dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia and as well as that I've already been diagnosed with autistic traits and am on a VERY lengthy waiting list to get the extent of those traits fully diagnosed. Based on the training last week I suspect I also have mild tourettes.
When I'm very stressed or concerned I have verbal ticks. There are 3 things that I involuntarily say. I'm not going to share those with you - that's private. However, I say mild because it's not all the time - maybe once a day - and I seem to only do it when I'm on my own. Maybe because I'm more aware and controlled with others (lol I can only imagine what the people around me would say if I said I was controlled with others - it gives you a vague idea of what I'm like alone).
However, the most fascinating thing I learnt about me was something called Orthographic dyslexia where reading a word formulates it differently so an individual may say it differently to others. This is something I've done my whole life, it really irritates people and I've had the piss taken out of me more times than I can mention. An example is that I call a tattoo a TUTooo, whereas I'm told that it's actually pronounced.... nope tried to run it through my head. Literally can't tell you how other people pronounce it. Anyway, they are wrong and I'm right.
Although not to do with dyslexia (as far as we know) I have a lovely story from my mother who was 24 the first time she heard somebody say the worlds Orang-u-tang. Up to that point she'd always thought that they were called Orange Utangs because she'd never heard anybody say it. Always makes me smile though it's a perfectly reasonable error.
So what are the bananas about - took me a while to get here. I always order 7 bananas in our shop. Last week the shop didn't have individual bananas so I ordered a bunch of 5. Then as I went in to adjust the shop over the week I didn't register they were bunches so I kept upping the amount. When the shop was delivered on Thursday there was an entire crate of bananas. I'd ordered 8 bunches of bananas (an extra one because it was a BH weekend).
Fortunately I was able to send some back so I sent back 4 bunches, but this still left us with 20 bananas. Unfortunately because the weather was warmer over the weekend the bananas started to turn quickly. Whilst I'm happy to eat bananas no matter what state they are in, the rest of my family are very cute about bananas that have any patches of black on the skin (precious darlings).
As a result of which we had a banana frenzy. As well as eating bananas we had banana ice cream, banana smoothies and banana milkshake. This means within just 3 days only 2 bananas were left. I see they are on the turn. If I don't end up eating them it looks like a banana cake is on the cards. Watch this space.
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