Hecubot ([info]hecubot) wrote,
@ 2006-03-29 11:14:00
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Gah!
Went in to nice boss' office and asked her point blank if I'm losing my job.

She said (and I quote), "I'm looking you right in the eye and I don't know anything about that."

LA Boss comes up tomorrow.

Possibilities:

(1) My source is wrong. Very unlikely. She heard it directly from one of my other bosses.

(2) My nice boss is out of the loop. Perhaps, as has been suggested, for plausible deniability.

(3) They're planning on keeping me through April. Definitely possible since one person in our unit is going to be gone all April so we'll be short-handed. Also, would allow the new co-worker to get up to speed. Also, they could do it as part of the evaluation cycle.

I don't know. I'm whipsawed and stressed and tired now. Maybe they're keeping me through April. Maybe LA Boss will drop the news on nice boss tomorrow.

I don't fucking know.



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[info]hereward
2006-03-29 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Nothing more aggravating for analytical types like us than not having all the pieces. Are they or aren't they? It sure sounds like they (evil LA boss) have it in for you, but maybe it is still at the office politics stage.

How about trying, as Bug sometimes calls it, radical acceptance, to help you cope with the whipsawed feeling until you have more data? Either they are or they aren't, so for the time being, grind away at the damned job as efficiently as you can, and try not to let their stepfordness crawl under your skin.

This advice doesn't help when you want badly to tell them to take a flying leap, but since you need the severance, try to take a perverse joy in making it as hard on them to part with you as possible.

Best of luck, I know this situation sucks (I'm a workplace rep for our "association" with the gov and I see this sort of thing often enough).

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