Somewhat good news today

This last couple of weeks have been very stressful and painful for me at work. The reorganization of my Division has left the office void of salesmen/managers. Leaving myself and another admin in the office. Just this week we learned that most if not all of our current duties will be moving to the Arizona office. Leaving us with not much to do. Which is leaving my days very empty of work, and is driving me crazy. I am trying my best to hold onto my hope that everything will be better and all I need is to have patience. But a part of my brain is getting louder and louder asking how much patience it will take, and how long can I stand not being busy at work....

Yet fate steps in right as I'm losing hope. A visiting salesman from Arizona has brightened my day and reassured my outlook with the office. My wish is that I can hold onto what he said and continue to have a happier attitude while at work. It has to mean something when he comments that during the meetings my name is mentioned quite often as a valuable employee. Yet if I'm so valuable why can't they inform me as to what is happening or what will happen with the office or changes.

Also, a prior post of mine...Meanie am I...has no meaning now as the helper has been moved back to full time status. I'm still not sure why, but it seems that it no longer matters that I can't keep her busy, let alone myself. Long story short, the multiple offices of my work, 3 in California, Denver, Chandler and SLC are now being combined into one office. We will still have the different locations but we all affect each other's profit. Kinda seems like a good thing, but I worry that a lot of admins might be downsized if the admin work is being moved to centralized locations.

Anywho, I'd best try and find something to keep me entertained so I can at least feel like I worked today.

Black Day at the Office

The last 2 days at work have been horribly sad!! To explain, my division had a recent bout of "restructuring"...again! (but thats another story for a different time) The results of this most recent restructuring is not at all what the office expected.

My boss and salesman are no more. They were both fired yesterday. Bossman was gone for good yesterday and salesman is finishing a few things up today then he's gone for good. On top of that, one of my favorite drilling supervisor gave his 2 weeks notice today, and one of our best drillers gave his 2 weeks notice, but he notified us last Monday.

My job is currently safe...as far as I can tell that is. So I get to wait out the restructuring and see how things turn out.

Oh, did I mention my new "temporary for now" bossman in charge is also the Da of my helper? Kinda an odd situation to deal with, not to mention what do I tell her on Monday.

Lots of Snow

We had a slight issue with our driveway earlier this week. Somehow the snowplows decided it'd be such fun to plow our street. The sad part, is we had about 6" of snow that became I'd guess 2-3' piled right in front of our driveway. Unfortunately I have a wee car that doesn't go through that much snow and we were stuck out of our driveway until it was cleaned out. 1 1/2 hour later we could actually drive onto our driveway!!

Yay for the snow!

Meanie am I

I feel like such a mean person. At work, I have a helper! She came to me from the Layne AZ office and has been good so far, but I haven't been able to keep her busy for 40 hours a week. Sadly I was given a deadline to decide what to do with her. I had the hardest time choosing.

How can someone decide what to do about another persons lifestyle....I asked other people for their opinion, I checked what benefits she'd still be eligible for between 20 and 30 hours, if they differed much.

Eventually I decided...her hours have been cut in half. I couldn't justify to myself having the company cover 2 full time office gals. Let alone keep the new gal busy when she lacks the initiative to ask if there is anything else she can do when she's done with what work I've given her.

Luckily, she still gets holidays, vacation, sick days and best of all she keeps her insurance! Which I worried most about as she is engaged and is the only one with insurance.

What's worse, I couldn't feel right about pawning off delivering the bad news onto my boss. Just didn't seem right, having my boss tell the person under me that her hours are being cut. Oh well, I'd better get used to it though if the office is expected to continue to grow as we all are hoping it is.

Still I feel like such a monster.

Our Stream Dream

During the winter we usually decide what projects we will be working on when the weather gets warmer. Lately it has been harder and harder to decide. We've been working on finalizing a streambed in our front yard. Some saw our wee pond, otherwise known as our gutter drain overflow. The full extent of the plan is to have a riverbed go through our front yard and cycle back up somwhere to create a constant moving flow.

This year it has been hard to decide...do we continue with our dream stream or move onto a more lumber aspect and add onto our deck. I still have not decided which to convince Kol we need done more quickly. Yet the same aspect applies for indoor projects which sadly I keep adding to our list. Garage workdesk for Kol, bathroom finished downstairs, or even tearing up the carpet upstairs and laying wood floors or tile?!?! Too many decisions and not enough time.