Moving right along....

The drive to the new building isn't as long as someone told me it was....so that's good.  I haven't done a trip odometer to see exactly how long it is, though.

Since I make my weekly trip at 10:00, I'm avoiding a lot of traffic, too, so it took about a half hour each way.  I was able to turn left when I exited on Monday, and went back exactly the way I came.  it worked out nicely.

My new space is great!  I basically have a double cube, plus the space that connects them along the back wall of the office.

Yeah, it's in the back, and there are no windows anywhere...just like before.... but it's big, and bright, and there's plenty of space for all of the paper I will go back to dealing with when we return to in person work.

All of the cube walls are 5 feet tall, and permanent.  No modular things like we always had at the old building.

Unfortunately, though, there is no pinboard or anything on the walls to hang stuff on, like phone lists, for example.

Maybe those are coming. 

Anyway, my soon to be ex-boss had I.T. put my work station in the least logical place in my area.  

Instead of in the part that's tucked safely behind a 5 foot wall, she had them put it right next to the document shred bin.  

Everyone in my section will be coming up right next to me to use that shred bin all day....  so.... that's not "covid safe."

I asked I.T. to move my work station to where it really should be, and they said my soon to be ex-boss had to approve it.  I thought that was stupid, but whatever....

She then questioned me as to why I wanted it moved.

REALLY?  

Anyway, as far as I know, she gave the go-ahead, but I don't know for sure yet.  We may have to wait until she's gone.

Since I won't be there full time yet, it's okay to wait.  I just thought it might be nice for me to start to organize the space a bit at a time when I go on Mondays for the usual trip.

In other news, apparently three of my team members are also leaving at the same time.  NO ONE has announced this to anyone officially, though, and one day next week, I guess they'll just stop answering emails and doing their jobs.

It's so aggravating, and, above all, stupid and disrespectful of those of us who are staying.

On Friday, I spent an hour or so reviewing and updating my full job description, including all of the stuff I will go back to doing when back in the office.  I will forward this along to the interim team, as soon as the outgoing team is gone.

This will basically say "Hey, guys...look at all of this stuff I do.... maybe you can utilize me in some way to help this transition, and maybe pay me more!!"

My list of duties is the longest one of anyone else in the entire department.

Not much else has been on my mind lately.  The stress and uncertainty have been overwhelming.  I just want this over with so we can move on.

I am pretty sure that the girl who got my promotion a few years back will soon be my new boss. Hopefully, no one has tainted her opinion of me, and we will continue to get along as well as we do.

She won't be able to handle being manager, but oh well.  My former boss saw to it that I didn't stand a chance.

Anyway, it's a beautiful, spring-like weekend, and we are headed out for a walk in the woods first thing.

There's winter weather ahead for us this week, though, with rain, ice, and snow, followed by double digits below zero.  Whee.

Have a good week, and wish me luck with the job situation, please.